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The vital roots of European enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's influence on modern Western thought [1st ed.] 9780739119891, 9780739119907, 9780739162330, 0739119893, 0739119907, 0739162330

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?

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