Ibn Tufayl

As a result, Ibn Tufayr wrote a very nice piece of philosophical literature called Hayy ibn Yaqvan, in which he speaks about a child born spontaneously on an island without parents, and how this child is going to reason and discover God's existence even though there is no society and no revelation.

The point that Ibn Tufayl was bringing into existence is that there is a possibility for reason by itself, even for a child on an island, to get the idea of God's existence without revelation or scriptures.

Ibn Baja and Ibn Rushd actually took more of Aristotelian philosophy and had great influence on the West more than on the East.

Like Averroesim was a school actually famous in the West more than it's famous in the East.

End of section one.

Section two of The Improvement of Human Reason by Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail, translated by Simon Ockley.

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The History of Hai Ebn Yokdhan.

And that there was also in inanimate things, namely all bodies besides plants and animals, which are in this sublunary world, something peculiar to them, by the power of which every one of them performed such actions as were proper to it; namely various sorts of motion, and different kinds of sensible qualities, and that thing was the form of every one of them; and this is the same which the philosophers call nature.

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Section five of The Improvement of Human Reason by Muhammad ibn Abd-Al-Malik ibn Tufail, translated by Simon Oakley.

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