Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: (Record no. 3303)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780801897394
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Original cataloging agency PMNP
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency Kutubkhanah Diraja
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 181.092
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9 (RLIN) 3502
Personal name Ben-Zaken, Avner
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Title Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan:
Remainder of title A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism
Statement of responsibility, etc. Avner Ben-Zaken
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Baltimore
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The John Hopkins University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 208p
Dimensions ‎ 6 x 0.76 x 9 inches
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Commonly translated as "The Self-Taught Philosopher" or "The Improvement of Human Reason," Ibn-Tufayl's story Hayy Ibn-Yaqzān inspired debates about autodidacticism in a range of historical fields from classical Islamic philosophy through Renaissance humanism and the European Enlightenment. Avner Ben-Zaken's account of how the text traveled demonstrates the intricate ways in which autodidacticism was contested in and adapted to diverse cultural settings.<br/><br/>In tracing the circulation of the Hayy Ibn-Yaqzān, Ben-Zaken highlights its key place in four far-removed historical moments. He explains how autodidacticism intertwined with struggles over mysticism in twelfth-century Marrakesh, controversies about pedagogy in fourteenth-century Barcelona, quarrels concerning astrology in Renaissance Florence, and debates pertaining to experimentalism in seventeenth-century Oxford. In each site and period, Ben-Zaken recaptures the cultural context that stirred scholars to relate to ayy Ibn-Yaqān and demonstrates how the text moved among cultures, leaving in its wake translations, interpretations, and controversies as various as the societies themselves. Pleas for autodidacticism, Ben-Zaken shows, not only echoed within close philosophical discussions; they surfaced in struggles for control between individuals and establishments.<br/><br/>Presented as self-contained histories, these four moments together form a historical collage of autodidacticism across cultures from the late Medieval era to early modern times. The first book-length intellectual history of autodidacticism, this novel, thought-provoking work will interest a wide range of historians, including scholars of the history of science, philosophy, literature, Europe, and the Middle East.
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9 (RLIN) 1274
Topical term or geographic name entry element Islamic philosophy
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