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Origin of the name TUFAIL.
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Meaning of the baby name TUFAIL.

  

TUFAIL (طفيل).  Arabic name, derived from the vocabulary word tufail', meaning "intervention, mediation." (A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Fallon, 1879).  Also spelled Tufayl.

    Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Malik Ibn at-Tufail al-Kaisi, a celebrated Spanish philosopher, was of Arabic descent, as the progenitor of his family belonged to the tribe of Kais.  He was born at Guadix, acquired great reputation as a mathematician, a physician and a philosopher.  He died in the city of Morocco, A.D. 1185 (A.H. 581-2). (Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, v.2, 1843)

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