Al-Farabi

*Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fārābī*^[1]
Muslimscholar; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fārābī
Teetle	The Seicont Teacher
Born	c. 872; Fārābon the Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in modren Kazakhstan orFaryābinKhorāsān(modren day Afghanistan).
Died	c. 950; Damascus
Ethnicity	Turkic
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Releegion	Islam
Main interest(s)	Metapheesics,Poleetical filosofie,law,Logic,Muisic,Science,Ethics,Mysticism,Epistemology
Notable wirk(s)	kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr( "The Great Beuk O Muisic" ),ārā ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila( "The Virtuous Ceety" ),kitāb iḥṣāʾ al-ʿulūm( "On The Introduction O Knawledge" ),kitāb iḥṣāʾ al-īqā'āt( "Clessification O Rhythms" )
	Influenced bi Aristotle,Plato,Porphyry,Ptolemy,Al-Kindi;
	Influenced Avicenna,Yahya ibn Adi,Abu Sulayman Sijistani,Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi,Ibn Bajjah,Mulla Sadra,Al Amiri,Averroes,Maimonides,Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī,Leo Strauss;

Al-Farabi(Turkis:Farabi,Arabic:ابو نصر محمد بن محمد الفارابي‎Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī;^[1]for ither recorded variants o his name see ablo), kent in theWastasAlpharabius^[5](c. 872^[2]inFārāb^[3]– atween 14 December, 950 an 12 Januar, 951 inDamascus),^[3]wis aTurkicrenainedfilosoferanjuristwha wrote in the fields opoleetical filosofie,metapheesics,ethicsanlogic.

References

↑^a ^b ^cGutas, Dimitri."Farabi".Encyclopædia Iranica.Retrieved4 Apryle2010.
↑^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^gCorbin, Henry;Hossein Nasr;Utman Yahya (2001).History of Islamic Philosophy.Kegan Paul.ISBN 978-0-7103-0416-2.^{[verification needit]}
↑^a ^b ^c ^dDhanani, Alnoor (2007)."Fārābī: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al‐Fārābī".In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.).The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.New York: Springer. pp. 356–7.ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0.(PDF version)
↑Brague, Rémi; Brague, Remi (1998)."Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: Leo Strauss's" Muslim "Understanding of Greek Philosophy".Poetics Today.19(2): 235–259.doi:10.2307/1773441.ISSN 0333-5372.JSTOR 1773441.
↑Alternative names an translations frae Arabic include:Alfarabi,Farabi,Avenassar,anAbunaser.