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• Introduction, 9

• Different Accounts of the Birth of Hayy Ibn Yokdhan, 29
• Hayy Ibn Yokdhan, son of a Princess, 30
• Hayy is exposed by his Mother, 30
• Hayy is driven by the tide to another Island, 31
• Hayy is found by a Roe, which takes care of him, 31
• Spontaneous Generation, 32
• Hayy grows up nursed by the Roe, 33
• Hayy learns to imitate animals’ voices, 34
• Hayy begins to take a careful view of things, 34
• Hayy observes the difference between the animals and himself, 35
• Hayy as a boy of seven. He covers himself with leaves, 36
• Hayy becomes aggressive, and attacks wild beasts, 36
• Hayy covers himself with the skin of an Eagle, 37
• Hayy spreads terror among the beasts, 37
• Hayy is grief-stricken at the death of the Roe, 38
• Hayy takes an aversion to the dead body, 38
• Hayy buries the body of the Roe, 39
• Hayy observes divers kinds of living creatures and plants, 39
• Hayy discovers Fire kindled by the friction of reeds, 40

THE THIRD SEPTENARY

• Hayy makes himself clothes and shoes of the skins of animals, 42
• Hayy learns to ride, 43
• Hayy examines the nature of bodies, 44
• Hayy transfers his thoughts to the heavenly bodies, 46

THE FOURTH SEPTENARY

• Hayy ponders over heaven and stars, 47
• Hayy finds that the body of heaven is finite, 47
• Hayy contemplates sun, moon, and stars, 48
• Hayy concludes that the heaven is of a spherical figure, 48
• Hayy ponders over the creation of the world, 50
• Hayy concludes that the world must have a Creator without bodily substance, 51
• Hayy admires the work of the Creator, 56

FIFTH SEPTENARY

• Hayy is completely taken up with the contemplation of the superior intellectual world, 58
• Hayy examines all his senses and faculties, 58

• Hayy Returns to the Sensible World 63

SEVENTH SEPTENARY

• Asal and Salaman appear on the scene, 65
• Nature and character of Asal and Salaman, 66
• Further differences of Asal and Salaman, 66
• Asal repairs to Hayy’s Island, 67
• Hayy and Asal meet, 69
• Hayy catches hold of Asal, 70
• Hayy and Asal stroke one another, 71
• Hayy and Asal try to understand each other, 71
• Asal makes Hayy eat of his food, 72
• Hayy Ibn Yokdhan at last joins Asal at dinner, but repents afterwards, 72
• Asal becomes Hayy’s companion and teacher, 73
• Hayy enlightens Asal on his inner life, 74
• Asal tells Hayy of the Island from whence he had come, 75
• Hayy observes that men are dull, stupid, and brutish, 78
• Asal persuades Hayy to follow him to his Island, 79
• Hayy and Asal return together to Asal’s Island, 79
• Hayy begins to teach and instruct Salaman’s subjects, 80
• Hayy despairs of being able to reform the vulgar crowd, 81
• Hayy’s philosophical views on the value of this world, 81
• Hayy gives up his preachings and teachings, 84
• Asal and Hayy return to their Island, 85
• Epilogue of the Author, 86

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