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Hayy ibn Yaqzam by Abu ibn Tufayl: An Arabic Mowgli

Philip José Farmer

First published 1994
Type Essay

Essay about a human raised by animals, in this case a baby boy nursed by a doe. The feral man Hayy is often compared in this paper with Tarzan and Mowgli.

First published in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol.3 No.3, 1994
Reprinted in Farmerphile Issue No. 4, April 2006.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1994 Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Volume 3, No 3 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts MAGAZINE 72
April 2006 Cover Farmerphile #4, April 2006 Michael Croteau FANZINE 5
July 2007 Cover Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories Subterranean Press Collection 361
October 2007 Cover Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories Subterranean Press Collection 361
July 2017 Cover The Best of Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer Meteor House Anthology 171
July 2017 Cover The Best of Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer Meteor House Anthology 171