On a Desert Island
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On a Desert Island بقلم Denys Johnson-Davies ... Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is an infant boy stranded on an uninhabited desert island. He was nursed and fed by a gazelle and grew to speak the language of the animals and birds. His solitary life on the island caused him to think and meditate and thus realize the concept of an Almighty creator of all creatures and things.
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Denys Johnson-Davies
(Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) (also known as Abdul Wadud) was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer