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Philosophy, Arab - Early works to 1800

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    The improvement of human-reason . Exhibited in the life of Hai Ebn Yokdan: written in Arabic above 500 years ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail. In which is demonstrated, By what Methods one may, by the meer Light of Nature, attain the Knowledg of Things Natural and Supernatural; more particularly the Knowledg of God, and the Affairs of another Life. Newly translated from the original Arabic, by Simon Ockley, A. M. Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgshire.

    | Ibn Tufayl | Date: 1731
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    The improvement of human reason : exhibited in the life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan / Abū Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasī ; newly translated from the original Arabick by Simon Ockley (1708).

    | Ibn Tufayl | Date: 1983
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    Alfārābīs̓ philosophische Abhandlungen aus Londoner, Leidener und Berliner Handschriften / herausgegeben von Friedrich Dieterici.

    | Farabi | Date: 1999

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