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 Knowledge of things Natural and Supernatural; more particularly the Knowledge 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 Swavesey in Cambridgshire. With an appendix, in which the possibility of man's attaining the true knowledge of God, and Things necessary to Salvation, without Instruction, is briefly consider'd.

Author: Ibn ?ufayl, Mu?ammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik.
Title: 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 Knowledge of things Natural and Supernatural; more particularly the Knowledge 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 Swavesey in Cambridgshire. With an appendix, in which the possibility of man's attaining the true knowledge of God, and Things necessary to Salvation, without Instruction, is briefly consider'd.
Description: London: printed and sold by Edm. Powell in Black-Friars, and J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, 1708. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. [xii], 195, [i]pp. First edition. The appendix has a separate dated title-page. Disbound. With a frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. ESTC T86070. Very Good.

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