The improvement of humane reason, exhibited in the life of Hai Ebn Yokdban: Written in Arabick above 500 years ago, by Abu Faafar Ebn Tophail. In which is demonstrated, by what methods a person, by the meer light of nature, mayattain the knowledge 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 Cambridgeshire. With an appendix, in which the notion of the possibility of man's attaining the true knowledge of God, and things necessary to salvation, without instruction, is briefly consider'd.

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