Bøger af Ibn Tufail

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.

This is a look at how the teachings of Islam affects Muslims' character. From the preface: "When Mr. Pococke first publish'd this Arabick Author with his accurate Latin Version, Anno 1671. Dr. Pococke his Father, that late eminent Professor of the Oriental Languages in the University ofOxford, prefix'd a Preface to it; in which he tells us, that he has good Reason to think, that this Author was contemporary with Averroes, who died very ancient in the Year of the Hegira 595, which is co-incident with the 1198th Year of our Lord; according to which Account, the Author liv'd something above five hundred Years ago. He liv'd in Spain, as appears from one or two Passages in this Book. He wrote some other Pieces, which are not come to our Hands. This has been very well receiv'd in the East; one Argument of which is, that it has been translated by R. Moses Narbonensis into Hebrew, and illustrated with a large Commentary. The Design of the Author is to shew, how Human Capacity, unassisted by any External Help, may, by due Application, attain to the Knowledge of Natural Things, and so by Degrees find out its Dependance upon a Superior Being, the Immortality of the Soul, and all things necessary to Salvation. How well he has succeeded in this Attempt, I leave to the Reader to judge. 'Tis certain, that he was a Man of Parts and very good Learning, considering the Age he liv'd in, and the way of studying in those Times. There are a great many lively Stroaks in it; and I doubt not but a judicious Reader will find his Account in the Perusal of it. I was not willing ('though importun'd) to undertake the translating it into English, because I was inform'd that it had been done twice already; once by Dr. Ashwell, another time by the Quakers, who imagin'd that there was something in, it that favoured their Enthusiastick Notions. However, taking it for granted, that both these Translations we're not made out of the Original Arabick, but out of the Latin; I did not question but they had mistaken the Sense of the Author in many places. Besides, observing that a great many of my friends whom I had a desire to oblige, and other Persons whom I would willingly incline to a more favourable Opinion of Arabick Learning, had not seen this Book; and withal, hoping that I might add something by way of Annotation or Appendix, which would not be altogether useless; I at last ventur'd to translate it a-new."

La novela cuenta la historia de un autodidacta y asilvestrado niño, criado por una gacela que vivió solo en una isla desierta en el Océano Índico. Después de que su gacela madre muere, él la disecciona y le realiza una autopsia para encontrar qué le ocurrió. Descubre que su muerte fue debida a la pérdida del calor innato. Este hecho le pone en el camino de la Ciencia Islámica y del autodescubrimiento. Sin contacto con otros seres humanos, Hayy descubre la última verdad a través de un proceso sistemático razonado. Hayy llega a contactar con la civilización y la religión cuando él se encuentra con Absal. Él determina que ciertos símbolos de la religión y la civilización, imaginería y dependencia de cosas materiales, son necesarias para que la multitud tenga una vida decente. No obstante, cree que son distracciones de la verdad y deberían ser abandonadas. Ibn Tufail saca el nombre del cuento y muchos de los personajes de un anterior trabajo de Avicena. El libro de Ibn Tufail no fue un comentario ni una mera reescritura del libro de Avicena sino un trabajo innovador. Refleja uno de los principales temas de los filósofos musulmanes (más tarde también de los pensadores cristianos), la reconciliación de la Filosofía con la Revelación.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. 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 Translated from the Original Arabick by SIMON OCKLEY, A.M. Vicar of Swanesey 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.

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan) is an Arabic philosophical novel and an allegorical tale written by Ibn Tufail in the early 12th century. The story revolves around ayy ibn Yaqan, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, in the bosom of an antelope that raised him and provided food for him from her milk. ayy has learned walking, imitating the sounds of antelopes, birds and other animals in his surrounding, learn the languages of the animals around him, and guiding himself to the actions of animals by imitating their instincts. He made his own shoes and clothes from the skins of the animal, studied the stars, till he gained a higher level of knowledge of the finest of astrologist. His continuous explorations and observation of creatures and environment led him gained great knowledge in natural science, philosophy and religion. He concluded that there is existence of a great creator, who created the universe. ayy ibn Yaqan lived a humble modest life as Sufi and forbade himself from eating meat. When ayy ibn Yaqan became thirty years old, he met the first human who landed on his isolated Island. By the age of forty-nine years, he was ready to teach other people about the knowledge he gained throughout his life.

Generally looked upon as a subject of repulsive aridity, in its strange combination of the most heterogeneous philosophical systems, devoid of the grace and charm of attractive style, unbrightened by brilliance of wit or spirit, Arabian philosophy has, for centuries past, been subject to sad and undeserved neglect.

1910. Generally looked upon as a subject of repulsive aridity, in its strange combination of the most heterogeneous philosophical systems, devoid of the grace and charm of attractive style, unbrightened by brilliance of wit or spirit, Arabian philosophy has, for centuries past, been subject to sad and undeserved neglect.