The vital roots of European enlightenment : Ibn Tufayl's influence on modern Western thought /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2007]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Buried in the dust of history : a forgotten Arab mentor of modern European thinkers
- Serving God or Mammon? echoes from Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and Sinbad the sailor in Robinson Crusoe
- The man of reason : Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and his impact on modern European thought
- Beyond family, history, religion, and language : the construction of a cosmopolitan identity in a twelfth-century Arabic philosophical novel
- The book that launched a thousand books
- The extraordinary voyage
- A philosophical letter, an allegorical voyage, or an autobiography? Hayy Ibn Yaqzan as a model in modern European literature
- Conclusion : a humanist thesis subverted?