# Ibn Tufayl

- id: ibn-tufayl
- name in original script: ابن طفيل
- dates: c. 1110–1185
- roles: author

Physician and vizier to the Almohad caliph Abu Ya'qub Yusuf, and Ibn Rushd's patron at court. His philosophical tale of a self-taught child alone on an island became, five centuries later, an unlikely best seller in Latin, Dutch and English. He died in Marrakesh in 1185 or 1186.

## Works in the atlas

- Hayy ibn Yaqzan (hayy-ibn-yaqzan)

## Sources

- Russell, G. A. (ed.) (1994). The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England.
- Ben-Zaken, Avner (2011). Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism.