Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān or Yaqdhan (Arabic: حي بن يقظان, lit. 'Alive son of Awake'; also transliterated as Hai eb'n Yockdan) is an Arabic philosophical novel and an allegorical tale written by Ibn Tufail (c. 1105 – 1185) in the early 12th century in al-Andalus. Names by which the book…