Little is known for certain about Abu Nasr al-Farabi’s origins but many historians suspect he was born somewhere in central Asia around 878 CE and was likely of Persian origin. Known as Alfarabius by ...

You might not be familiar with the name Al-Farabi, a 10th-century thinker from Baghdad, but you know his work, or at least its results. Al-Farabi was, by all accounts, a man of steadfast Sufi ...

Islamic Philosophers On Tyranny AmirAli Maleki looks at tyranny from an Islamic perspective. Do Islamic philosophers allow tyranny, or do they advocate a free and enlightened soci ...

Philosophers are “acknowledging the crucial role played by Islamic scholars in preserving, transmitting and developing the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and their progeny to later generations,” ...

Farabi is one of the greatest philosophers and scientists of the golden age of Islam who specialized in science, philosophy, logic, sociology, medicine, mathematics, and music. He was regarded in the ...

History of Political Thought, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 175-195 (21 pages) Scholarship on al-Farabi interprets his theoretical analysis of politics apart from its historical context, which ...

Through translations of ancient classics, he became one of the earliest Muslim philosophers to introduce Greek philosophy to the Islamic world Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Uzalagh Al ...

One of the greatest Islamic philosophers graces libraries of the Western world A view shows the dome of the Assyrian church facing a mosque minaret at Manger Square where the Church of the Nativity is ...

This paper examines contemporary academic interest in the development of philosophy in the Arab-Islamic world, questioning the philosophical legitimacy of 'Islamic philosophy' and the association of ...

Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 36, No. 3/4, SPECIAL FOCUS: Ibn Khaldun (2008), pp. 547-570 (24 pages) In this paper the method proposed by Ibn Khaldun in the political and social fields, will ...

Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Uzalagh Al Farabi (AD870-950), a Muslim of Persian descent who was born in the city of Farab in the Khorasan province of today’s Iran, studied in Baghdad ...