Utopia’s Moorish Inspiration: Thomas More’s Reading of Ibn Ṭufayl

By Daniel Regnier

A promising but neglected precedent for Thomas More’s Utopia is to be found in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ibn Ḥayy Yaqẓān. This twelfth-century Andalusian philosophical novel describing the self-education and enlightenment of a feral child on an island,…

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