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Al-Farabi


Born
Fārāb, Abbasid Caliphate
Died
December 08, 0949

Genre

Influences


Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Arabic: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابی Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī;, known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872[2] in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), Born c. 872 Fārāb on the Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in modern Kazakhstan or Faryāb in Khorāsān (modern day Afghanistan) and Died in Damascus, Syria
He was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.
In Arabic philosophical tradition, he is known with the honorific "the Second Master", after Aristotle. He is credited with preserving the original Greek texts during the Middle Ages because of his c
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“If boy would not fall in love, girl is not worthy of love.”
Al-Farabi

“To accept something on mere presumption and, likewise, to fail to investigate it may cover over, blind, and lead astray.”
Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts

“Alfarabi first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv, where he began to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yūḥannā Ibn Haylān.”
Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts

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