Al-Farabi

10th century Islamic philosopher and jurist

Al-Farabi (persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابي, Arabic: ابو نصر محمد الفارابي / Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī;[1]) known in the West as Alpharabius[2] (c. 872[3] in Fārāb[4] – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus[4]), was a Persian scientist and philosopher of the Islamic world. He was also a cosmologist, logician, and musician.

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