The first encounter between Plato's concept of the philosopher king and Jewish political tradition came in Hellenistic-Roman times, but Melamed (Jewish philosophy, U. of Haifa) focuses on its renewal
The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island
