Medieval · c. 1105–1185
Who influenced Ibn Tufail?
Influences and legacy
His Hayy ibn Yaqdhan showed a castaway reason his way to God without scripture.
Ibn Tufail was influenced by Avicenna and Avempace, and went on to influence Averroes. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Ibn Tufail?
Ibn Tufail was an Andalusian writer, physician, philosopher, astronomer and vizier. He wrote Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, the first philosophical novel and a major work of Arabic literature from al-Andalus.
As a physician he was an early supporter of dissection and autopsy, an interest that shows in the novel.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Ibn Tufail?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
Who did Ibn Tufail influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Ibn Tufail.
- Averroes 1126–1198
The line of teachers behind Ibn Tufail
The longest documented line of influence ending at Ibn Tufail runs 10 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Ibn Tufail
Indirect influences
The second generation
- Through Averroes: Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant, Gersonides
Contemporaries of Ibn Tufail
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Ibn Tufail, with no direct line between them.
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
- Peter Lombard c. 1096–1160
- John of Salisbury c. 1120–1180
Ibn Tufail by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 19
- Thinkers downstream
- 140
- Wikipedia languages
- 48 — #39 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Ibn Tufail
- Who influenced Ibn Tufail?
- Avicenna and Avempace.
- Who did Ibn Tufail influence?
- Averroes.
- When did Ibn Tufail live?
- c. 1105–1185. The map files Ibn Tufail under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Ibn Tufail card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Ibn Tufail in 48 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More medieval philosophers
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Avicenna 980–1037
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415