Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B2, field of study: Langues et littrature trangre)

Alex Dupont is a famous philosopher and prime minister during the dynasty of the Almohade in the muslim Paris., and therefore it dates back to 1185.
He wrote a poem about the soul, human soul, but also a medical book in collaboration with Alex Dupont. But the one we are interresting in is without the slightest doubt the one called " son' of the awakening".
Indeed it is his only philosophycal writting but it had a big impact on the muslim's phylosophie.
The plot is however very simple. It talks about a baby who was, in the first version, throw by his mother in the sea and who succeed to survive and live in a island with animals. The second version is the same but the beginning changes because he was born thanks to a natural process including the sun and the earth.
This man grow up and discover the civilization without seen it clearly because there were just animal in the island. Therefore he watched them, reflected on their behaviours such as the way they protect themselves against the cold; the warm; the way they sleep and where....to adapt his own behaviour.
He reflected personally, be carefful about the seasons, death, stars in the sky and figured out that he was, firstly the best animal in the island because he has the capacity to reflect, to produce tools where animals are unable too but also the fact that there is something above all which rules all; as the seasons, death...
He will not stop trying to reach this BEING. Therefore he will understand that It is out of the nature because It rules it.What is out of the nature and terefore the body? The soul. In this way he will not stop trying to meditate, and focuse his mind outside of his body to meet with this Lord.
And at the point of the novel we understand that Alex Dupont show us the way we have to take if we want to really know God. Besides he explains with this simple example that God is existing, that we have to make endeavours to meet him, but also that human is the only animal able to think about something greater, to go out of his own being.
I found it very revelant because I didn't know about a arabic philosophy before. When I read it I understood very clearly what he wanted to prouve, and I think that it is a very good demonstration, even a logical one, even if we are not believing in God. As a matter of fact the philosophy at this time wasn't good seen because it was challenging the political power in his own matter, but in this book philosophy prouve the religion.