A child named Hayy ibn Yaqzan is cast away, or perhaps born of the earth, on an uninhabited island and nursed by a roe. Growing up without human company, he studies the bodies of animals, the heavens and his own soul, and by reason alone rises step by step to knowledge of the Creator.
A twelfth-century Andalusian philosophical romance often seen as a forerunner of Robinson Crusoe. Download the free EPUB.