Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Awzalagh Al-Farabi
c. 870-950
Turkish Philosopher, Mathematician, and Musician
Al-Farabi provided the first comprehensive Arabic classification of the sc...
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Abu Nasr Al-Farabi
c. 870-c. 950
Persian Turkistani follower of al-Kindi (c. 801-c. 866) who was a polymathic scholar (learned in many disciplines) and philosopher leaning toward Neoplatonism and inte...
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Al-FĀrĀbĪ [addendum]
Al-Fārābī was a key figure in establishing much of the problematic of Islamic philosophy in the peripatetic tradition. He built on the ea...
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During the tenth-century, philosopher, scholar, and alchemist Al-Farabi (c. 870- c. 950) popularized the philosophical systems of Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato. He integrated their views into...
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Al-Farabi's importance in the history of Islamic philosophy may be gathered from the epithet commonly applied to him by later philosophers. Known as the "Second Teacher"--second, that is, only to Aris...
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In the following essay, Colmo critiques Leo Strauss's studies of al-Fārābī, particularly concerning the relationship between science and philosophy.
According to Leo Straus...
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In the following essay, Fakhry discusses the importance of al-Fārābī's continuation of the Aristotelian tradition.
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During the period separating Boethius (d. 525) and Ab&#...
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In the following essay, Parens considers to what degree al-Fārābī should be considered a Neoplatonist.
This chapter treats the secondary literature on Alfarabi's corpus as ...
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In the following essay, Colmo examines al-Fārābī's advice to rulers in the Book of Religion, comparing and contrasting it with the advice given by Nicolo Machiavelli in The...
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In the following essay, Mahdi explains the uniqueness of al-Fārābī's political works and their thematic concern with the salvation of civilization.
Alfarabi established the...
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In the following essay, Najjar explains that, in al-Fārābī's view, political science is another term for practical wisdom and cannot be separated from philosophy and metaph...
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In the following essay, Fakhry details al-Fārābī's argument that alleged discrepancies between statements made by Plato and Aristotle are merely the result of an inadequate...
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In the following essay, Mahdi explains al-Fārābī's position that religion and philosophy are not necessarily opposed to each other and that they can be mutually beneficial....
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In the following essay, Druart examines al-Fārābī's presentation of emanationism and defends the author's writings against charges of inconsistency by explaining tha...
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In the following essay, Gyekye focuses on a treatise written by al-Fārābī concerning the logical structures used by Muslim philosophical theologians.
Introduction
My intention in ...
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In the following essay, Haddad summarizes and analyzes al-Fārābī's theory of language communication as well as its impact on education.
Summary
We have examined in the prev...
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In the following essay, Netton examines al-Fārābī's description of God as the One in whom essence and existence merge absolutely, his understanding of the concept of emanat...
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In the following essay, Galston analyzes al-Fārābī's writing style—a multilevel method which both conceals and reveals—and his purpose in adopting this method...
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Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Awzalagh Al-Farabi
Al-Fārābī [addendum]
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