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Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan : A Philosophical Tale new-arrivals-140222 as well as tackle theThe Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided but also unimpeded by society, language, or tradition. Hayy's discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the values of the culture in which the tale was