Ibn Tufayl, Muhammad b. Abd al-Malik, ca.1110-1185

"Ibn Tufail (nombre completo en árabe: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi, transcripción deبكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي; latinizado como Abubacer; hispanizado como Abentofail) (Guadix, Purchena o Tíjola, c. 1105 o 1110 - Marrakech, 1185) fue un médico, filósofo, matemático y poeta, mentor de Averroes. Participó en la vida cultural, política y religiosa de la corte de los almohades en Granada. En el núcleo de sus ideas filosóficas se encuentra el problema de la unión del entendimiento humano con Dios."

"Ibn Tufail (c. 1105 - 1185) (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi; Latinized form: Abubacer Aben Tofail; Anglicized form: Abubekar or Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official. As a philosopher and novelist, he is most famous for writing the first philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, also known as Philosophus Autodidactus in the Western world. As a physician, he was an early supporter of dissection and autopsy, which was expressed in his novel."