Al Farabi (870-950) was born of a Turkish family and educated by a Christian physician in Baghdad, and was himself later considered a teacher on par with Aristotle. His treatise On the Agreement of the Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle showed how he saw their ideas to be the same in contrast to the belief current in philosophy in his time. He was also an accomplished writer of music, composing songs still sung by Dervishes to this day. This is the disambiguation page for the terms Turk, Turkey, Turkic, and Turkish. ... This article is about the religious people known as Christians. ... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (بغداد) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ... Aristotle (sculpture) Aristotle ( Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs) ( 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. ... The word Dervish, especially in European languages, refers to members of Sufi Muslim ascetic religious fraternities, known for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars. ...

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Abu Nasr al-Farabi (259-339 AH / 870-950 AD) is one of the foremost Islamic Philosopher /Logician.

Biography

Original Source Biography

al-Farabi  (http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/farabi/farabi-bio-ayun.htm) from Ibn abi-Usiba's Tabaqat al-'itbia (Arabic html)

Supplementary Material

• Al-Farabi  (http://umcc.ais.org/~maftab/ip/hmp/XXIII-TwentyThree.pdf): from History of Muslim Philosophy. (E-text) in PDF format only.

Prof. Fakhry's Biography of al-Farabi (http://www.oneworld-publications.com/books/al-farabi.htm). (informational link to the publisher) Sample Chapter. Brief outline of his life and contributions. (link) Encyclopedia Iranica's article. (e-text) needs editing... Important entry in French about the musical side of al-Farabi. (link)

His Works

Kitab tashil as-Saadah (attainment of Happiness) Ed. Bumelham Arabic PDF format. 'Ara' ahl al-Midnia al-Fadilah (Opinions of people of the Perfect state) Ed. Bumelham Arabic PDF format. Kitab 'Ihsa' al-Uloom (Categories of Science) Ed. Bumelham Arabic PDF format. Kitab as-Siysah al-Madinyah (Public Administration) Ed. Bumelham Arabic PDF format. Kitab al-Huruf (Book of letters) Arabic html E-text. Also in word file format. al-tahsil Arabic word file. The Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. Mahdi, M. English E-text PDF format. Also the Arabic Original (Ed. Bumelham Arabic PDF format.) Fusul al-Madani: Aphorisms of the Statesman, Dunlop, D. M. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 1961. Alfarabi: The Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms And Other Texts, Butterworth, Charles E. Cornell University Press, 2001, ISBN: 0801438578

Works about his thought

Al-Farabi: An Annotated Bibliography. Rescher, N. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1962. Al-Farabi’s Short Commentary on Aristotle’s “Prior Analytics.” Rescher, N. Translated from the Arabic, with Introduction and Notes. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1963. Tahafut al-Falasifa (Incoherence of philosophers) His most famous philosophical work. Arabic text (ed. S. Dunya) (A CRITICAL EDITION Arabic PDF file size: 4490kb!) (Warning: Very, very big file!) Arabic E-text in word format -partially edited with intro restored. English translation by S. A. Kamali (in PDF file size: 13881kb!) (Warning: Very, very big file!)** The degrees of the abstraction according to al-Farabi. (Arabic word file) by Lotfi Khayrallah. Argument of Alfarabi’s Book of Religion by: Paul M. Bushmiller (link) Al-Fârâbî on Logic and the Sciences by: Dr Peter Adamson.

Related Philosophers & Muslim Scholars

Ibn Sina the Muslim philosopher who made him famous. Al-Ghazali the Muslim theologian who refuted him and Ibn Sina. Ibn Rushd, one of the Muslim philosophers that tried to return Islamic Philosophy to pure Aristotlianism. Ibn Taymiyah, he had interesting opinions on philosophy . Site

Manuscripts

List of the existing manuscripts of his works. Multimedia (Audio & Video):

Video: S. H. Nasr: Great thinkers series: al-Farabi. (link) TV Transcripts: From Egyptian TV. (E-text)