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A scholarly collection of essays exploring how the 12th-century Arab philosopher Ibn Tufayl — especially through his philosophical novel Hayy Ibn Yaqzan — significantly shaped major themes of the European Enlightenment. The book traces Ibn Tufayl’s influence on Western thinkers such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton and Immanuel Kant, arguing that core Enlightenment values — reason, freedom, equality, toleration — have roots in medieval Arabic-Islamic philosophy.

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