Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī

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Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī, better known as Ibn Tufayl, was a 12th-century Andalusian Arab polymath, philosopher, physician, and author of the influential philosophical novel "Hayy ibn Yaqzan."

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instanceOf Andalusian philosopher
Islamic philosopher
allegorical tale
human
novelist
philosopher
philosophical novel
physician
polymath
advisorTo Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf
linked to: Abu Yaqub Yusuf
alsoKnownAs Abubacer
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī
Ibn Ṭufayl
linked to: Ibn Tufayl
author Ibn Tufayl
centuryOfActivity 12th century
countryOfBirth Almoravid dynasty
culture Andalusian
dateOfBirth c. 1105
dateOfDeath 1185
era Islamic Golden Age
ethnicGroup Arab
linked to: Arabs
familyName Ibn Ṭufayl
linked to: Ibn Tufayl
genre fiction
philosophy
givenName Muḥammad
linked to: Muhammad
influenced Averroes
Daniel Defoe
European Enlightenment thought
John Locke
Latin scholasticism
introducedToCourt Averroes
kunya Abū Bakr
linked to: Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
language Arabic
mainInterest epistemology
medicine
metaphysics
philosophy of religion
movement Islamic philosophy
Peripatetic philosophy
linked to: Peripatetic school
occupation court official
philosopher
physician
vizier
writer
originalLanguage Arabic
philosophicalIdea attainment of knowledge through reason and experience without revelation
harmony of reason and revelation
placeOfBirth Guadix
al-Andalus
linked to: Al-Andalus

near Granada
placeOfDeath Almohad Caliphate
linked to: Almohad dynasty

Marrakesh
region al-Andalus
linked to: Al-Andalus
religion Islam
servedAs court physician to the Almohad caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf
work Hayy ibn Yaqzan
workedUnder Almohad Caliphate
linked to: Almohad dynasty

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Ibn Tufayl fullName Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī
Ibn Tufayl alsoKnownAs Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī