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Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan : A Philosophical Tale The Quill Award for Book of the Year (2005) how crimes are committed andThe Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided but also unimpeded by society, language, or tradition. Hayy's discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the values of the culture in which the tale was