Ibn Ṭufayl (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي ʾAbū Bakr Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Malik bin Muḥammad bin Ṭufayl al-Qaysiyy al-ʾAndalusiyy; Latinized form: Abubacer Aben Tofail; Anglicized form: Abubekar or Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail; c. 1105 – 1185) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, Islamic philos...

Ibn Ṭufayl (born 1109/10, Guádix, Spain—died 1185/86, Marrakech, Morocco) was a Moorish philosopher and physician who is known for his Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (c. 1175; Eng. trans. by L.E. Goodman, Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓan by Ibn Ṭufayl, 1972), a philosophical romance in which he describes the self-education and gradual philosophical development ...

Ibn Tufayl or Ibn Tufail (c.1105 – 1185), full name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي (Latinised form: Abubacer), was an Andalusian Arab Muslim philosopher, physician, and court official.

Ibn Tufail was an illustrious physician, philosopher, mathematician, and poet of the Muwahhid Spain, but unfortunately very little is known about his works. Ibn Khatib attributes two treatises on medicine to him. Al-Bitruji (his pupil) and Ibn Rushd credit him with “original astronomical ideas.”

Ibn Tufayl (ca. 1110-1182), called Abubacer in the West, inherited Aristotelian rationalism and the philosophy of Ghazali, Farabi, his teacher Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), and the celebrated Ibn Sina or Avicenna.

Ibn Tufayl was the second most important Muslim philosopher in the West, the first being Ibn Bajja. With the exception of some fragments of poetry, his only extant work is Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (The Living Son of the Vigilant).

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufail (also known by a Latinized version of his name, Abubacer Aben Tofail, 1105--85 AD) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath who was born near Granada, Spain, and died in Morocco.

Ibn Tufail, also known as Abubacer, was an Arab Andalusian philosopher, physician and novelist born in the 12th century. His work Hayy ibn Yaqzan is considered a masterpiece of medieval Islamic philosophy and is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Arabic literature.

May 24, 2017 · Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al‐Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Tufayl al‐Qaysi (al-Andalusi, al- Ishbili) (c. 1110–1185), also known in the West as Abentofail and Abubacer, was born in Wadi ‘Ash (modern Guadix, Spain). He was a prominent Andalusi physician and philosopher, and was active primarily at the Muwahhid court, where he served as a ...

Ibn Tufail (c. 1105 – 1185) (Abubacer Aben Tofail; Abubekar or Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official.