The vital roots of European enlightenment : Ibn Tufayl's influence on modern Western thought /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Attar, Samar
Other Authors:	Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]
Subjects:	Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, > -1185 > Influence. Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, > -1185. > Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān. Islamic philosophy > History.
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?