This blog presents scholarly work of people from Hunza and surrounding regions. You wil also find leading opinion articles, essays and research papers by leading writers on issues of contemporary interest.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Hayy ibn Yaqdan
A medieval philosophicla novel written by Ibn Tufail in reponse to al-Ghazali's Tahafut al-Falsafa.This novel was subsequently translated into many European langauges and was widely read during the time whcih later came to be known as 'the Age of Reason' . We will read more about this important novel and discuss it by way of understanding the link between Arab culutre and early Renaissance activities across Europe.
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