Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
Besides scientific and philosophical literature, works of Arabic fiction were also translated into Latin and English during the 17th and 18th centuries. The most famous one was the "One Thousand and One Nights" ("Arabian Nights"), which was first translated into English in 1706 and has since then had a profound influence on English literature. Another famous work was Ibn Tufail's philosophical novel "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan", which was translated into Latin as "Philosophus Autodidactus" by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671 and then into English by Simon Ockley in 1708. The English translation of "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan", set on a desert island, may have inspired Daniel Defoe to write "Robinson Crusoe", considered the first novel in English, in 1719. Later translated literary works include "Layla and Majnun" and Ibn al-Nafis' "Theologus Autodidactus".