The Awakening Of The Soul | Wisdom Of The East | by Paul Bronnle
It is to two English scholars, father and son, Edward Pococke, senior and junior, that the world is indebted for the knowledge of one of the most charming productions Arabian philosophy can boast of. Generally looked upon as a subject of repulsive aridity, in its strange combination of the most heterogeneous philosophical systems, devoid of the grace and charm of attractive style, un-brightened by brilliancy of wit or spirit, Arabian philosophy has, for centuries past, been subject to sad and undeserved neglect...
| Title | The Awakening Of The Soul | Wisdom Of The East |
| Author | Paul Bronnle |
| Publisher | John Murray |
| Year | 1908 |
| Copyright | 1908, John Murray |
| Amazon | The Awakening Of The Soul: A Philosophical Romance |
Rendered From The Arabic With Introduction By Dr. Paul Bronnle F.R.G.S., F.R.Hist.S., M.R.A.S., Etc
Third Edition London
To Her Excellency The Countess Olga Uxkull-Gyllenband Lady • In - Waiting To Her Majesty The Queen Of Wurtemberg
Respectfully Dedicated By Paul Bronnle
The Wisdom Of The East Series
Edited By L. Cranmer-Byng Dr. S. A. Kapadia
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- Introduction
- It is to two English scholars, father and son, Edward Pococke, senior and junior, that the world is indebted for the knowledge of one of the most charming productions Arabian philosophy can boast of. ...
- Introduction. Part 2
- In the following pages I will endeavour to give a short resume of this story, though I am painfully aware of the fact that such an analysis can scarcely do justice to the beauty of the language nor to...
- Introduction. Part 3
- At last his mind finds itself occupied with the great problem of Creation and Creator, With admirable skill the author delineates here the gradual development of Hayy's reasonings on the Creator and M...
- Introduction. Part 4
- Then, when he came to consider the divine essences and heroic spirits, he found them to be free from body and all its adherents, and removed from them at the utmost distance, having no connection or d...
- The Awakening Of The Soul: A Philosophical Romance
- Different Accounts Of The Birth Of Hayy Ibn Yokdhan OUR good Forbears - may God be gracious unto them - report: there is an Island amongst the Indian Islands (in the Indian Ocean), situated under t...
- The Awakening Of The Soul: A Philosophical Romance. Part 2
- Hayy Grows Up Nursed By The Roe According to the other account (which we follow) the infant developed and grew, being nourished with the roe's milk, until he was two years old. By this time he bega...
- The Awakening Of The Soul: A Philosophical Romance. Part 3
- Hayy Spreads Terror Among The Beasts Moreover, he spread such terror among the beasts that they did not venture to resist or oppose him, and none dared to come near him except his roe which had suc...
- The Third Septenary
- Hayy Makes Himself Clothes And Shoes Of The Skins Of Animals BY the time he had attained to the end of his third septenary, viz. to the twenty-first year of his age, he had found out many things wh...
- The Fourth Septenary
- Hayy Ponders Over Heaven And Stars THUS far had he arrived with his reflections about the fourth septenary of his age. He recognised that the heavens and all the stars contained therein were bodies...
- The Fourth Septenary. Continued
- Was it because some motive supervened which it had not before? But there was nothing besides him, the Creator. Was it, then, owing to some change in his own nature? If so, what has caused this chan...
- Fifth Septenary
- Hayy is completely taken up with the Contemplation of the Superior Intellectual World. THUS far he had advanced in his knowledge by the end of the fifth septenary from his birth, that is when he wa...
- Hayy Returns To The Sensible World
- AS to the end of his story, I will tell you all about it, with the help of God. When Hayy returned to the Sensible World, after his digression into the Divine World, he began to loathe the burden a...
- Seventh Septenary
- A Sal And Salaman Appear On The Scene THUS he continued in this state until he had passed the seventh septenary of his age, that is, until he was fifty years of age. Then it happened that he made t...
- Seventh Septenary. Part 2
- But, as for Hayy Ibn Yokdhan, he could not imagine what it was: for of all the creatures he had ever beheld in his life, there was none that resembled him in the least. Now A sal was clothed in a b...
- Seventh Septenary. Part 3
- So A sal began to teach him to speak, first by showing him particular things, and pronouncing their names, and by repeating them often unto him he made him to pronounce them again, which he presently ...
- Seventh Septenary. Part 4
- Hayy observes that men are dull, stupid and brutish. This was what he thought; and that which put this opinion into his mind was that he thought that all men were imbued with an ingenuous temper, a...
- Seventh Septenary. Part 5
- And what labour can be greater, and what misery more grievous, than his who works, if you well observe, from the time he awakes till he goes to sleep again ; there will not be found so much as one amo...
- Epilogue Of The Author
- And this is that - God help thee and us by his spirit - which we have received of the history of nayy Ibn Yokdhan and Asal and Salaman. In its setting down we have made such choice of words as are ...
- The Orient Library. The Wisdom Of The East Series
- Edited by L CRANMER-BYNG and Dr. S. A. KAPADIA THE object of the Editors of this Series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the amba...
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