THE AWAKENING
OF THE SOUL

RENDERED FROM THE ARABIC
WITH INTRODUCTION

BY DR. PAUL BRÖNNLE
F.R.G.S., F.R.HIST.S., M.R.A.S., ETC.

FOURTH IMPRESSION

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1910

PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

To Her Excellency
THE COUNTESS OLGA ÜXKÜLL-GYLLENBAND
Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty
The Queen of Wurtemberg
Respectfully dedicated
by
PAUL BRÖNNLE

CONTENTS

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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