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HoP 148 - Fantasy Island - Ibn Bajja and Ibn Tufayl

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Ibn Tufail and the Varways in Andalusia

Ibn Baja was the first Muslim thinker in Andalusia who wholeheartedly adopted the Aristotelian style of philosophy. Avarways also carried on the characteristic Baghdad school activity of writing commentaries on Arhazali. It would be better to think of Ibn Tufail not as the second of three Aristotelians, but as the proponent of a mystically spiced avocenism.

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