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The vital roots of European enlightenment : Ibn Tufayl's influence on modern Western thought / Samar Attar.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attar, Samar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185--Influence.
- Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik.
- Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185. Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān.
- Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185.
- Islamic philosophy--History.
- Islamic philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 174 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Ibn Tufayl's influence on modern Western thought
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Buried in the dust of history : a forgotten Arab mentor of modern European thinkers
- Serving God or Mammon? echoes from Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and Sinbad the sailor in Robinson Crusoe
- The man of reason : Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and his impact on modern European thought
- Beyond family, history, religion, and language : the construction of a cosmopolitan identity in a twelfth-century Arabic philosophical novel
- The book that launched a thousand books
- The extraordinary voyage
- A philosophical letter, an allegorical voyage, or an autobiography? Hayy Ibn Yaqzan as a model in modern European literature
- Conclusion : a humanist thesis subverted?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-157) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739119891
- 0739119893
- OCLC:
- 141187962
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