Al-Farabi

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 the Wast as Alpharabius[5] (c. 872[2] in Fārāb[3] – atween 14 December, 950 an 12 Januar, 951 in Damascus),[3] wis a Turkic renained filosofer an jurist wha wrote in the fields o poleetical filosofie, metapheesics, ethics an logic.

Muslim scholar
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fārābī[1]
TeetleThe Seicont Teacher[2]
Bornc. 872[2]
Fārāb on the Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in modren Kazakhstan or Faryāb in Khorāsān (modren day Afghanistan).[1]
Diedc. 950[2]
Damascus[3]
EthnicityTurkic
EraIslamic Golden Age
ReleegionIslam
Main interest(s)Metapheesics, Poleetical filosofie, law, Logic, Muisic, Science, Ethics, Mysticism,[2] 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")[2]

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