At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
At Cairo Ibn al-Nafis composed al-Risala al-Kamiliyya fi al-sira al-nabawiyya — the Theologus Autodidactus — an intellectual tour de force in which a solitary man called Kamil on a desert island deduces by abstract reasoning that the events of the Prophet's life and of the community's history were the best that could possibly have happened 1.
In the text
The treatise takes in the Mongol incursions of the author's own lifetime and the physical appearance of the Muslim ruler — no doubt sultan Baybars — and ends with a naturalistic account of the Last Things; since it portrays the living Baybars (658–676 AH) it is dated approximately within his reign 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Occurred at
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Death of Ibn al-Nafis at Cairo and his endowment of estate and books to the Mansuri maristan, 21 Dhu al-Qa'da 687/December 1288· Ibn al-Nafis becomes Chief Physician of Egypt and personal physician of Baybars, c. 658/1260· Ibn al-Nafis settles in Cairo and joins the Nasiri hospital, 633/1235· Completion of the Mansuri maristan in Cairo, 683/1284· Ibn al-Nafis· Cairo· Al-Azhar Mosque· Bab al-Futuh, Cairo
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 898
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Nafis composes the Theologus Autodidactus (Fadil ibn Natiq) at Cairo, c. 670/1270”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ibn-al-nafis-theologus-670/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.
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