Definition of Ibn Tofail

What does the word Ibn Tofail mean?

• part of speech: noun

  An Arabic philosopher and physician, who flourished towards the close of the twelfth century in one of the Spanish dominions of the Moors. His most celebrated work is a philosophical romance bearing the title "The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan", which has been translated into Hebrew, Latin, and English.