Ḥayy b. Yaqẓān (Alive, son of Awake) is the name given to a number of philosophical treatises with substantial literary aspirations. The first is a carefully constructed allegory by the Bukharan philosopher-physician Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, d. 428/1037). The second is a far lengthie…
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In Arabic philosophy , the imagination is customarily treated in the Aristotelian framework of psychic powers or faculties (quwan). Imagination is one of the inner senses (al-ḥawāss al-bāṭina) , those capacities that synthesise the evidence collected by the five external senses …
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad Ibn Ṭufayl al-Qaysī (d. 581/1185) was a courtier, philosopher, royal physician, and Ṣūfī during the Almohad regime in the Maghrib. A close friend and confidante to the second Almohad caliph, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf (r. 558–80/1163–84), Ibn…
The concept of eternity served Muslim thinkers, from an early date, as a means of spelling out the difference between Creator and creation: God is eternal, while everything else has an origin in time. Both theological and philosophical considerations served to complicate this se…
