First-Year Seminar Presents
Religion, Self, and the Other in Ibn Tufayl’s
Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Monday, October 19, 2015
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
by Tehseen Thaver, Assistant Professor of Religion,
Bard College
Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufayl (d.1185 CE) represents one of the most enduring though often less appreciated texts in Muslim intellectual history. The themes of the nature of the self, reason, revelation, travel and knowledge that animate this text continue to be pressing issues of human concern. How can this text be situated in broader debates on self, reason and revelation in the Muslim tradition? In what ways do such discussions connect with comparative religious and spiritual knowledge traditions? Why and how is this text significant to the humanities and the liberal arts today? These are among the questions this presentation will seek to highlight and explore. Free and open to the public.Bard College
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Time: 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater