# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ibn-tufail
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:06.362Z

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name: "Ibn Tufail"
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description: "Ibn Ṭufayl wrote what's considered the first philosophical novel — a twelfth-century thought experiment from Al-Andalus that imagined a man raised alone on an island, reasoning his way to truth without scripture or teacher."
tagline: "Arab Muslim polymath (c. 1105–1185)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1105 in Arab Andalusia, Ibn Ṭufayl moved between medicine, philosophy, theology, and astronomy, eventually rising to vizier. His novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan — the story of a solitary figure discovering knowledge through observation and reason — became a major work of Arabic literature and smuggled in his medical convictions: he advocated for dissection and autopsy at a time when both were contested. He died in 1185, leaving behind a narrative that posed questions about innate knowledge, empirical inquiry, and whether a mind could find God without being told where to look.