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Something wrong?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.
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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.
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