Ibn Ṭufayl

Japanese: イブン･トゥファイル（英語表記）Ibn Ṭufayl

1105-85
Abubacer, a philosopher and physician in the Western Islamic world. Born near Granada and died in Marrakesh, he served as the court physician to the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf for many years, and retired in 1182, handing over his position to Ibn Rushd. He left behind a number of medical books, but is especially known as the author of the philosophical novel Hayy b. Yaqẓān (the living one, the son of the enlightened one). The novel tells the story of an old man who attains philosophical wisdom through his own intellectual endeavours on an isolated island in the middle of the ocean, and a young man who escapes from another island, disgusted by the ignorant masses who are satisfied with traditional and conventional religions. The two men then visit the island to preach the truth to the ignorant masses, but discord and quarrels arise over the teachings of the two men, and the two men return to the island in despair.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1105ころ‐85
西方イスラム世界の哲学者，医師。ラテン名はアブバケルAbubacer。グラナダ近郊に生まれマラケシュで没。長くムワッヒド朝のカリフ，アブー･ヤークーブ･ユースフに宮廷医師として仕え，1182年その職をイブン･ルシュドに譲って引退した。若干の医学書を残しているが，とくに哲学小説《ヤクザーンの子ハイHayy b.Yaqẓān》(〈覚めた者の息子，生きた者〉の意)の著者として有名。それは絶海の孤島で独力の思想的営為の末，哲学的英知を達成した老人と，無知な群衆が伝統的で因習的な宗教に満足しているのを嫌って，別の島から脱出してきた若者とが意気投合し，無知な群衆に真理を説き聞かせるため若者の島を訪れたが，そこでは2人の教えをめぐって不和と争いが起こり，2人は絶望して孤島に帰っていくというものである。

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