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    Al-Farabi was an influential 10th century Muslim philosopher born in 870 AD in Wasij, Turkistan. He studied in Baghdad under the famous Greek translator Abu Bashr Yunus and contributed significantly to various fields including science, philosophy, logic, psychology, medicine, mathematics and music. As a philosopher, he believed that a just city should favor justice over tyranny and give both justice and injustice their due. He also viewed the perfect state as resembling a healthy body where different parts work together under a ruling organ, with the ruler fulfilling roles like lawgiver and philosopher.

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    Al-Farabi was an influential 10th century Muslim philosopher born in 870 AD in Wasij, Turkistan. He studied in Baghdad under the famous Greek translator Abu Bashr Yunus and contributed significantly to various fields including science, philosophy, logic, psychology, medicine, mathematics and music. As a philosopher, he believed that a just city should favor justice over tyranny and give both justice and injustice their due. He also viewed the perfect state as resembling a healthy body where different parts work together under a ruling organ, with the ruler fulfilling roles like lawgiver and philosopher.

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    Al-Farabi was an influential 10th century Muslim philosopher born in 870 AD in Wasij, Turkistan. He studied in Baghdad under the famous Greek translator Abu Bashr Yunus and contributed significantly to various fields including science, philosophy, logic, psychology, medicine, mathematics and music. As a philosopher, he believed that a just city should favor justice over tyranny and give both justice and injustice their due. He also viewed the perfect state as resembling a healthy body where different parts work together under a ruling organ, with the ruler fulfilling roles like lawgiver and philosopher.

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    Al-Farabi

    "A fair city should favor justice and the


    just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give
    them both their just deserts."

    Al-Farabi
    Biography
    – Born in 870 AD in Wasij, Turkistan.
    – Studied in Baghdad under the guidance of the famous Greek translator, Abu Bashr Yunus.
    – His great service to Islam was to take the Greek heritage, as it had become known to the
    Arabs, and show how it could be used to answer questions with which Muslims were
    struggling.
    – Contributed considerably to science, philosophy, logic, psychology, medicine, mathematics
    and music.
    – Known as the Mallim-e-Sani- “Second Teacher”-
    – Died at the age of 80 years in Damascus in 950 AD.
    On the perfect state
    • “The excellent city resembles the perfect and healthy body, all of whose limbs co-operate
    …. Now the limbs and organs of the body are different and their natural endowments and
    faculties are unequal in excellence, there being among them one ruling organ, namely the
    heart, and organs which are close in rank to that ruling organ …. The same holds good in
    the case of the city. Its parts are different by nature, and their natural dispositions are
    unequal in excellence: there is in it a man who is the ruler, and there are others whose
    ranks are close to the ruler, each of them with a disposition and a habit through which he
    performs an action ….

    • Lawgiver, philosopher, imam are roles of the ruler


    Khitab Al-Musiqa
    – Al-Farabi was particularly interested in instruments which make the theoretical
    side of music easier to understand.
    – For this purpose he himself fashioned an instrument and modified some others,
    like the Baghdad drum (tanbur) and the rabab.
    – The fundamentals of the science of music are learned through perception and
    practice.
    Interesting facts
    – In the field of psychology, Al-Farabi was one of the first to write on the concept
    of social psychology, which is man's need for communion with other people in
    order to live.
    – Al-Farabi's portrait appeared on the currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan
    – As a philosopher, Al-Farabi was a founder of his own school of early Islamic
    philosophy known as “Farabism” or “Alfarabism”.
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