The Improvement of Human Reason

The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan is an Islamic philosophical work written by  Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasi.

Author's Preface:

When Mr. Pococke first publish'd this Arabick Author with his accurate Latin Version, Anno 1671. Dr. Pococke his Father, that late eminent Professor of the Oriental Languages in the University of Oxford, prefix'd a Preface to it; in which he tells us, that he has good Reason to think, that this Author was contemporary with Averroes, who died very ancient in the Year of the Hegira 595, which is co-incident with the 1198th Year of our Lord; according to which Account, the Author liv'd something above five hundred Years ago.