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Abū Naṣr al-Fārābi (أبو نصر محمد الفارابي - Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābi; for other recorded variants of his name see below) known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951), was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.

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  • Al-Farabi
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  • Abū Naṣr al-Fārābi (أبو نصر محمد الفارابي - Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābi; for other recorded variants of his name see below) known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951), was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.
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Origin
  • unknown''
Name
  • Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārābi''
Works
  • (kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr , ārā ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila , kitāb iḥṣāʾ al-ʿulūm , kitāb iḥṣāʾ al-īqā'āt )
Region
  • ( Iran, Egypt and Syria)
Maddhab
main interests
  • (Metaphysics, Political philosophy, Logic, Music, Science, Ethics, Mysticism, Epistemology and Medicine)
Title
  • The Second Teacher
school tradition
  • known as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism"; gave rise to the Farabian school
Influences
  • Aristotle, Plato, Porphyry, Ptolemy,, Al-Kindi
Color
  • #cef2e0
Death
  • c. 950
Birth
  • c. 872
influenced
  • Avicenna, Yahya ibn Adi, Abu Sulayman Sijistani, Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, Ibn Bajjah, Mulla Sadra Al Amiri, Averroes, Maimonides and Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Leo Strauss
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  • Abū Naṣr al-Fārābi (أبو نصر محمد الفارابي - Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābi; for other recorded variants of his name see below) known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951), was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.
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