Al-Farabi
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A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts.
— H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)
Al-Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
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- Fame67.2
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- Global rank#238
- Academics rank#211
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Lived 870–951, aged 81
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Updated 2026-06-08
He built the first coherent philosophical system in the Islamic world and earned a title no one else could claim: "Second Master" — with Aristotle as the first.
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Born around 870, Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi worked across logic, metaphysics, political philosophy, ethics, and music theory, weaving them into a framework that went beyond his Greco-Roman and Syriac predecessors. He presented philosophy as a unified discipline to the Islamic world and created a system distinctly his own, one that later thinkers would mine for centuries. His influence ran through Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, and reached as far as Albertus Magnus in the Latin West. He died in December 950 or January 951, leaving a structure of thought that made every philosopher after him r…
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