Ibn Tufayl Alone on the Island of One’s Mind

Özkan Öze
Illustrated by Narges Hashemy

Ibn Tufayl: Alone on the Island of One’s Mind is a fictional tale based on the questions and the thoughts Ibn Tufayl might have had before writing his famous work Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.

How did Ibn Tufayl’s journey towards writing such a work begin? What kinds of thoughts must have  passed through his mind along that journey? In this book, we set out on our own journey to find and follow the footsteps of Ibn Tufayl’s mind.