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Farabi
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thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 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".
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Farabi was a male philosopher, physicist, music theorist, and logician who lived during the Islamic Golden Age and the Shi'a Century. He was a citizen of the Abbasid Caliphate and practiced Islam, specifically Shia Islam. His native language was Turkish, and he also spoke Arabic, Persian, and Sogdian. He wrote in Arabic and was influenced by Aristotle, Plato, and Plotinus. His notable work is Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir.
Born in Otrar around 870, he died in Damascus in 951 and is buried at Bab al-Saghir Cemetery. He was a student of Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus and taught Yahya ibn Adi. His works cover natural history, metaphysics, mathematics, and logic. He is also known by the nickname le Second Maître and المعلم الثاني.
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- Born
- ca. 870
- Died
- ca. 950
- Works
- 142
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- سياست مدنيه /
- Kitāb arāʾ ahl al-madīnah al-fāḍilah
- Idées des habitants de la cité vertuese
- al-Taʻlīqāt
- אלפאראבי
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Key facts
- Philosopher.image
- Alpharabius in Liber Chronicarum 1493 AD.png
- Philosopher.caption
- Portrait of Al-Farabi—Alpharabius
- Philosopher.era
- Islamic Golden Age
- Philosopher.name
- Abu Nasr Farabi
- Philosopher.birth_place
- Faryab, Khorasan or Farab, Transoxiana
- Philosopher.other_names
- Second Master
- Philosopher.death_place
- Damascus
- Philosopher.main_interests
- Political Philosophy · Philosophy of Religion · Physics · Metaphysics · Logic · Psychology · Epistemology · Ethics · Music Theory
- Philosopher.notable_ideas
- Father of Islamic Neoplatonism, Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy
- Philosopher.region
- Islamic philosophy
- Philosopher.school_tradition
- Aristotelianism · Neoplatonism
- Philosopher.notable_works
- Kitab al-Musiqi al-Kabir ("Grand Book of Music"), Ara Ahl al-Madina al-Fadila ("Virtuous City"), Kitab Ihsa al-Ulum ("Enumeration of the Sciences"), ''Risalah fi'l-Aql'' (Epistle on the Intellect)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Otrar
- Place of death
- Damascus
- Occupation
- social scientist
- Languages spoken
- Sogdian
- Native language
- Turkish
- Religion
- Shia Islam
- Field of work
- psychology
- Image
- Farabi.jpg
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- Commons category
- Al-Farabi
- date of birth
- 0872-00-00
- Commons Creator page
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- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in native language
- ابونصر محمد بن محمد فارابی
- topic's main category
- Category:Al-Farabi
- writing language
- Arabic
- influenced by
- Plotinus
- nickname
- المعلم الثاني
- student
- Yahya ibn Adi
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- time period
- Shi'a Century
- date of death
- 0951-01-01
- place of burial
- Bab al-Saghir Cemetery
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- Psychology
- Influences and transmission
- Thought
- Metaphysics and cosmology
- Epistemology and eschatology
- Psychology, the soul and prophetic knowledge
- Practical philosophy (ethics and politics)
- Modern Western translations
- Legacy
- See also
- Citations
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
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thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 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.
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