Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufayl (ca. 1110-1185) was a Spanish Moslem philosopher and physician, author of the celebrated allegorical tale "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan." Known to medieval Christian scholastics as Abubacer (from Abu Bakr), Ibn Tufayl was born in the...

d. c. 1185 Arab physician and philosopher, widely regarded both for his medical work and for his novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan. The book's title is rendered in English as Walk On, and it presents Ibn Tufayl's mystical philosophy in a tale...

Ibn Tufail (c. 1105, Gaudix, Spain – 1185) (full Arabic name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي)...

Age: 68 Residence: Potomac. Education: BA, MA, commerce, University of Allahabad. Occupation: President, Euro-America Shipping and Trade Inc. Elected offices/civic activities: Board member, Committee for Montgomery, Progressive Maryland, Uptown Citizens Advisory Board; past chairman, Democratic 15 caucus. What is...

Edited by LAWRENCE I. CONRAD. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies, vol. 24. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. 305. HF1 150, $97. This book is the result of an interdisciplinary symposium that Lawrence I. Conrad organized in 1987 under...