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A proto-Robinsonade in a Dutch edition

IBN TUFAIL & Adriaan RELAND.
Het wonderlyk en zeldzaam levensgeval van Hai Ebn Jokdan, waar in getoont wort, hoe imant buiten eenig ommegang met menschen, ofte onderwysinge kan komen tot de kennisse van zich zelven en van God. Zynde desen druk met de Arabische grondtext vergeleken door den heer Adriaan Reland.

With engraved title, 5 engraved plates.

With engraved title, 5 engraved plates.

With engraved title, 5 engraved plates.

With engraved title, 5 engraved plates.

With engraved title, 5 engraved plates.



Utrecht, Hendrik Schouten, 1721. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. With engraved title, 5 engraved plates. (26), 254 (=256) pp.

Third Dutch edition of a proto-Robinsonade: the popular allegorical tale and philosophical romance on the life of Havy ibn Yaqthan (Hai Ebn Jokdan), by Abu Bakr Ibn al Tufail (± 1105-1185) and translated by Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), professor in Oriental Antiquities and Eastern languages at the Academy at Utrecht, appointed in 1701. In the 12th century the work was written in Arabic with the title ''Risalat Havy ibn Yaqzan''. The book was first translated in Latin by Edward Pocock titled ''Philosophus autodidacticus epistola'', (Oxford, 1671). In 1686 George Ashwell translated it into English. In 1672 the book was first published in Dutch titled: Het leeven van Hai ebn Yokdhan ,(Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertz, 1672) followed by a second edition published in Rotterdam by Pieter van der Veer, 1701. The Dutch translations were based on  the Latin version which caused some discrepancies between the original Arabic text. To purify the Dutch translation it was compared with the original Arabic text by A. Reland. Our copy has an engraved title dated 1701, printed by P. van der Veer, Rotterdam.
The story relates of a man who was abandonned as a child and left alone at an island and fed by a goat as a toddler. He  lives alone on the island and has no contact with other humans. By reasonable thinking, however he discovers the truth. Upon contact with human society he is shocked when he encounters dogmatism and other ills.
Adriaan Reland was famous for his study and publication on Islam De religione Mohammedica libri duo and his descriptions of the archeological finds and geography of Palestine in his Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum (1708) and Palestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata (1714).

Fine copy.
Buisman 5; De Vries 257*; Mateboer 1720; Staverman p. 177, 1c, cf. 45-49; Molhuysen-Blok IX, 851-852.

Related Subjects: Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Netherlands  Popular Books  Robinson Crusoe 

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