The Awakening of the Soul

by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

CONTENTS

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• [Introduction], 9

• [Different Accounts of the Birth of Hayy Ibn Yokdhan], 29
• [Hayy Ibn Yokdhan, son of a Princess], 30
• [Hayy is exposed by his Mother], 30
• [Hayy is driven by the tide to another Island], 31
• [Hayy is found by a Roe, which takes care of him], 31
• [Spontaneous Generation], 32
• [Hayy grows up nursed by the Roe], 33
• [Hayy learns to imitate animals’ voices], 34
• [Hayy begins to take a careful view of things], 34
• [Hayy observes the difference between the animals and himself], 35
• [Hayy as a boy of seven. He covers himself with leaves], 36
• [Hayy becomes aggressive, and attacks wild beasts], 36
• [Hayy covers himself with the skin of an Eagle], 37
• [Hayy spreads terror among the beasts], 37
• [Hayy is grief-stricken at the death of the Roe], 38
• [Hayy takes an aversion to the dead body], 38
• [Hayy buries the body of the Roe], 39
• [Hayy observes divers kinds of living creatures and plants], 39
• [Hayy discovers Fire kindled by the friction of reeds], 40