Al-Farabi

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh al-Farabi (in Persian : محمد فارابی) also known in the West as Alpharabus , Alfarabi , or Farabi , ( 870 – 950 CE ) was a Persian philosopher and scientist and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of his time.

Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī ( , Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī ; for other recorded variants of his name see below) known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 – between 14 December , 950 and 12 January , 951 ), was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist , logician , musician , psychologist and sociologist . Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica , Online Edition. accessed April 4 , 2010 . History of Islamic Philosophy . Alternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi , Farabi , and Abunaser

Al-Farabi ( / ˌ æ l f ə ˈ r ɑː b i / ; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fārābī ; for other recorded variants of his name see below) , known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus ), was a renowned philosopher and jurist of the Islamic Golden Age , who wrote in areas of political philosophy , metaphysics , ethics and logic . He was also a scientist , cosmologist , and a music scholar . Al-Farabi is credited with preserving the original Greek texts during the Middle Ages because of his commentaries and treaties, and influencing many prominent philosophers, like Avicenna and Maimonides . Through his works, he became well-known in the East as well as the West. History of Islamic Philosophy . In Thomas Hockey; et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . ( PDF version ) Brague, Rémi; Brague, Remi (1998). Alternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi , Farabi , Avenassar , and Abunaser .

Abu Nasr Al-Farabi ( / ˌ æ l f ə ˈ r ɑː b i / ; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al Fārābī ; known in the West as Alpharabius ; c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951) was a renowned early Islamic 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 Islamic philosophical tradition he was often called "the Second Teacher", following Aristotle who was known as "the First Teacher". He is credited with preserving the original Greek texts during the Middle Ages because of his commentaries and treatises, and influencing many prominent philosophers, such as Avicenna and Maimonides . Through his works, he became well-known in the West as well as the East. History of Islamic Philosophy . In Thomas Hockey; et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Ibn Khaldun drited away from Al-Farabi's political idealism. Alternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi , Farabi , Avenassar , and Abunaser . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .

Islamic philosopher and music theorist (c. 870 – 950/951) Postage stamp of the USSR , issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi ( Arabic : أبو نصر محمد الفارابي , romanized : Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī ; c. 870 – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius , was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist . He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism ", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy ". Al-Farabi's fields of philosophical interest included—but not limited to, philosophy of society and religion ; philosophy of language and logic ; psychology and epistemology ; metaphysics , political philosophy , and ethics . He was an expert in both practical musicianship and music theory , and although he was not intrinsically a scientist, his works incorporate astronomy , mathematics , cosmology , and physics . Al-Farabi is credited as the first Muslim who presented philosophy as a coherent system in the Islamic world , and created a philosophical system of his own, which developed a philosophical system that went far beyond the scholastic interests of his Greco-Roman Neoplatonism and Syriac Aristotelian precursors. That he was more than a pioneer in Islamic philosophy , can be deduced from the habit of later writers calling him the "Second Master", with Aristotle as the first. Al-Farabi's impact on philosophy is undeniable, to name a few, Yahya ibn Adi , Abu Sulayman Sijistani , Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri , and Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi ; Avicenna , Suhrawardi , and Mulla Sadra ; Avempace , Ibn Tufail , and Averroes ; Maimonides , Albertus Magnus , and Leo Strauss . He was known in the Latin West , as well as the Islamic world . There are <ref group=upper-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). Fakhry 2002 , passim; Netton 1998 , summary. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Journal for the History of Arabic Science . Historical Dictionary of Islam . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .