Ibn Tufail the writer of "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan", the first Arabic novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdha

Ibn Tufail the writer of "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan", the first Arabic novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan had a significant influence on Arabic literature, Persian literature, and European literature, and went on to become an influential best-seller throughout Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The work also had a "profound influence" on both Islamic philosophy and modern Western philosophy. It became "one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution" and European Enlightenment, and the thoughts expressed in the novel can be found "in different variations and to different degrees in the books of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Immanuel Kant."George Sarton considered the novel "one of the most original books of the Middle Ages."