Ibn Tufail (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasi) Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by Simon Ockley (1708)

The Improvement of

HUMAN REASON,

Exhibited in the LIFE of

Hai Ebn Yokdhan:

Written in Arabick above 500 Years ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail.

In which is demonstrated,

By what Methods one may, by the meer
Light of Nature, attain the Knowledg
of things Natural and Supernatural;
more particularly the Knowledg of God,
and the Affairs of another Life.

Illustrated with proper FIGURES,

Newly Translated from the Original Arabick by
SIMON OCKLEY,
A.M. Vicar of Swanesey in Cambridgshire.

With an APPENDIX,

In Which the Possibility of Man's attaining
the True Knowledg of GOD, and
Things necessary to Salvation, without
Instruction, is briefly consider'd.

To the Reverend