#hayy-ibn-yaqzan

▤ Reading group: Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan as a book about learning without teachers

I have spent years with Hayy ibn Yaqzan, and I would love company for a slow reading with one question in mind: what does this book think a teacher is for? Ibn Tufayl, writing in twelfth-century al-Andalus, imagines a child raised on…