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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.
- Second Master
Jul 15, 2016 · Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī was probably born in 870 CE (AH 257) in a place called Farab or Farayb. In his youth he moved to Iraq and Baghdad. In 943 CE (AH 331) he went to Syria and Damascus. He may have gone to Egypt but died in Damascus in December 950 CE or January 951 CE (AH 339). Scholars have disputed his ethnic origin.
al-Fārābī (born c. 878, Turkistan—died c. 950, Damascus?) was a Muslim philosopher, one of the preeminent thinkers of medieval Islam. He was regarded in the medieval Islamic world as the greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 15, 2016 · Al-Farabi’s philosophy of society and religion can be described as an intelligent and original synthesis, particularly, of these oeuvres, a synthesis which shares the late-ancient commentators’ concern for harmonizing the positions of Aristotle and Plato.
Apr 16, 2019 · For general information on al-Fārābī see the entry on Al-Farabi. Al-Fārābī studies the various roles of language in human life and society. He emphasises the use of language to convey information, to ask questions and resolve disagreements, and to describe distinctions and classifications.
- Wilfrid Hodges, Therese-Anne Druart
- 2019
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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.
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