Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ابن طفيل، محمد بن عبد الملك

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Philosophical novel by the Andalusian physician, astronomer and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī (أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي, d. 1185).

Extent and format

Ff. 235v-258r

It is part of

Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)

1208 images

Ref: Add MS 16659

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 235v-258r

History of this record

Date(s)

1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

• Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
• Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum , 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39

Select Bibliography

Edition and French translation:

• Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, Hayy ben Yaqdhân. Roman philosophique d'Ibn Thofaïl , edited and translated by Léon Gauthier, 2nd edition (Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique, 1936)

Studies:

• Kukkonen, Taneli, ‘Ibn Ṭufayl’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam , THREE, edited by Kate Fleet et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32274 (accessed 24 October 2019)
• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 494, p. 187

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik Ibn Ṭufayl

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Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ابن طفيل، محمد بن عبد الملك, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 235v-258r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00000c> [accessed 3 July 2026]

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