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.
- Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185.
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- 1711
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Hayy ibn Yaqdhan. English
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London : printed for W. Bray at the East End of the Inner-Walk of Exeter-Change, 1711.
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[12],195,[1]p.,plates ; 80.
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ESTC T142465