Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical TaleThe Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaidedbut also unimpededby society, language, or tradition. Hayys discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the values of the culture in which the tale was written as well

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this volume takes its readers into one of the most exciting periods in the history of philosophy

Sherman Jackson’s Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection takes on that challenge and is to date one of the most important academic studies on Islam in the African-American experience

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