On Hayy Ibn Yaqzan:Text Analysis And Comparative Study

The story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan is Ibn Tufayl's only work which left behind in the Middle Ages.The author depicts a vivid story about a person who grow up in a desert island.Through imagination and symbolic language,the story combines the profound differences and problems in the history of Islamic world thoughts into concise storyline,which preserves a rare thought classics for medieval Islam.This paper compares the relationship and difference between al-Ghazali's thought autobiography," Deliverance from error " and the story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan,the author thinks that the Hayy of the protagonist in the story to transform the people's failure attempt corresponds to the Ghazali 's revolution of Islam,and he holds a critical attitude towards it.In this paper,the core content and interrelation of the three stories in Ibn Sinai's "Vision Trilogy" are analyzed in depth.The text of the Ibn Tufayl blends the roles of the three different stories in the "Visionary Trilogy",and transformed in a whole new story context.The key point of this integration is to simplify,or even cancel,the richness of the cosmological picture in the text of Ibn.Sinai,and the relevant "Angelogy" theory.This leads to the dissolution of the mystical of the established doctrines of religion and philosophy,and the freedom of the individual to be free under the "State of Nature",which provides the possibility for the rebirth of a new order.