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 Knowledg of God, and the Affairs of another Life. Illustrated with proper Figures. Newly translatad [sic] 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):

Theism.

Islamic philosophy.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Improvement of human reason,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Bray at the East End of the Inner-Walk of Exeter-Change, 1711.

Notes:

The appendix has a separate titlepage dated 1708.

A reissue of the 1708 edition printed for Powell and Morphew; the preliminaries are apparently printed from the same setting of type but bear an advertisement for Ockley's 'Conquest of Syria', the titlepage is a cancel, and this edition may be a reissue of the 1711 edition 'printed by E.P. for G. Harris'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T142465.

OCLC:

642429185