The improvement of human reason
Subtitle: Exhibited in the life of Hai ebn Yokdhan
By: written in Arabick above 500 years ago, by Abu Jaafar ebn Tophail. In which is demonstrated, by what methods one may, by the meer light of nature, attain the knowledg [sic] of things natural and supernatural; more particularly the knowledg of God, and the affairs of another life. ; Newly translated from the original Arabick, by Simon Ockley, ...
Publisher: London printed: and, Dublin re-printed by and for Sam. Fuller, at the Globe in Meath-street
Published: 1731
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Islamic philosophy; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Life of a self-taught philosopher.; History of Hai ebn Yokdan.
Work titles: Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān
Notes: 12mo: A-G⁶.

Dedication to Edward Pococke whose Latin translation was published in 1671 under title: Philosophus autodidactus sive epistola Abi Jaafar ebn Tophail.

Translation of: Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān.

Half-title: The life of a self-taught philosopher. -- Running title: The history of Hai ebn Yokdan. -- Publisher's advertisements on p. [6].

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