The improvement of human reason, exhibited in the life of Hai ebn Yokdhan : written in Arabick above 500 years ago, by Abu Jaafar ebn Tophail. In which is demonstrated, By what Methods one may, by the meer Light of Nature, attain the Knowledg of things Natural and Supernatural; more particularly the Knowledge of God, and the Affairs of another Life. Illustrated with proper figures. Newly translated from the Original Arabick, by Simon Ockley, A. M. Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgshire. With an appendix, in which the possibility of man's attaining the true knowledg of God, and Things necessary to Salvation, without Instruction, is briefly consider'd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, d. 1185.

Standardized Title:

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Islamic philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],195,[1]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Improvement of human reason,

Improvement of human reason, exhibited in the life of Hai ebn Yokdhan

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by Edm. Powell in Black-Friars, and J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, 1708.

Notes:

The appendix has a separate dated titlepage.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T86070.

OCLC:

642717749