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Ibn Tufayl

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi
Title Ibn Tufayl
Abubacer Aben Tofail
Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail
Born 1105
Guadix, Andalusia
Died 1185 (aged 79–80)
Marrakesh
Era Islamic Golden Age
Region Al-Andalus
Occupation Muslim scholar
Religion Islam
Jurisprudence Sunni Islam
Creed Avicennism
Main interest(s) Early Islamic philosophy, literature, kalam, Islamic medicine
Notable idea(s) Wrote the first philosophical novel, which was also the first novel to depict desert island, feral child and coming of age plots, and introduced the concepts of autodidacticism and tabula rasa
Notable work(s) Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
(Philosophus Autodidactus)

Ibn Tufail (c. 1105 – 1185) (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi; Latinized form: Abubacer Aben Tofail; Anglicized form: Abubekar or Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail) was a Moorish Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official.

As a philosopher and novelist, he is most famous for writing the first philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, also known as Philosophus Autodidactus in the Western world. As a physician, he was an early supporter of dissection and autopsy, which was expressed in his novel.

Born in Guadix, near Granada, and belonging to the Qays Arab tribe, he was educated by Ibn Bajjah (Avempace). He served as a secretary for the ruler of Granada, and later as vizier and physician for Abu Yaqub Yusuf, the Almohad caliph, to whom he recommended Ibn Rushd (Averroës) as his own future successor in 1169. Ibn Rushd later reports this event and describes how Ibn Tufayl then inspired him to write his famous Aristotelian commentaries:


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