Author

IBN TUFAYL, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik.

Title

The history of Hai Eb'n Yockdan,
an Indian prince: or, The self-taught philosopher. Written originally in the Arabick tongue, by Abi Jaafar Eb'n Tophail, a philosopher by profession, and a Mahometan by religion. Wherein is demonstrated, by what steps and degrees, humane reason, improved by diligent observation and experience, may arrive to the knowledge of natural things, and from thence to the discovery of supernaturals; more especially of God, and the concernments of the other world. Set forth not long ago in the original Arabick, with the Latin version, by Edw. Pocock. M.A. and student of Christ-church, Oxon. 1671. And now translated into English.

Published, Date

London : printed for Richard Chiswell, in S. Paul's Church-yard, and William Thorp bookseller in Banbury,1686.

Description

First edition in English. 8vo (181 x 110mm.), [30], 217, [1]pp., initial licence leaf, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, small hole in B7 (not affecting text), binding rubbed, lacking lettering-piece. Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (armorial bookplate and blindstamp).

Note

A novelistic account of the development of Islamic philosophy, written by a Spanish Muslim physician. Pococke's Latin version was first published in 1671.

References

Stock Number

77107