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Islamic Naturalism and Mysticism: A Philosophic Study of Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Bin Yaqẓān

By Sami S. Hawi

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
1997
ISBN
9004038124, 9789004038127
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31935742 bytes)
Pages
xvi+282\300
Time added
2018-06-06 17:54:35
Practices & Sacred Texts;Religious Art;Religious SReligion & Spirituality;Agnosticism;Atheism;Buddhi

Description

The book itself deals with the philosophy of the brilliant but virtually unknown Islamic thinker, Ibn Tufayl (1100-1184) who lived in Spain. The substance of the book involves Professor Hawi's able exposition of this philosopher's point of view as found in his employment of the romantic tale: Hayy Bin Yaqzan. For, in a way reminiscent of Plato, Tufayl used this strange tale to present the various stages of his own personal philosophical development. This development, in fact, involves three stages: (1) his early naive realism; (2) his later scientific naturalism - which actually, in certain respects, anticipates certain significant scientific concepts such as the theory of evolution; and (3), finally, due largely to the impact of the great Moslem philosophic mystic, al-Ghazzali, his conversion to an extreme form of mysticism and pantheism.

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