Al-Farabi: Philosopher

Al-Farabi (Abu Nasr Mohammad Al-Farabi) was a world famous Muslim intellectual, philosopher, language specialist, and educationist. Born in Wasij, in the province of Farab in Turkestan, in an honorable family, Al-Farabi moves to Baghdad, where he studies, grammar, logic, philosophy, music, mathematics and science under the guidance of great translator and interpreter of Greek philosophy, Abu Bishr Matta b. Yunus in Baghdad. Al-Farabi worked as a judge before becoming a teacher and because he accumulated such knowledge of philosophy, he earned the name of the ‘Second Teacher’.

Al-Farabi’s work

Al-Farabi contributed alot to science, philosophy, logic, sociology, medicine, mathematics and music. As a philosopher, he composed rich discourses

Many philosophers depict Al-Farabi as originator of Islamic philosophy because he established logic within Islamic culture. Every Islamic philosopher is Al-Farabi's students and created and details his philosophy. Al-Fārābī's philosophical intuition was sustained in the heritage of the Arabic Aristotelian teachings of tenth century Baghdad. His extraordinary administration of Islam was to take the Greek legacy, and show how it could be utilized to answer questions with which Muslims were battling. The real piece of al-Fārābī’s works was coordinated to the issue of the right ordering of the state. Al-Farabi is considered the “father” of Islamic Neoplatonism. He was know n to replaced the Qu’ranic doctrine of creation ex nihilo with a Neoplatonic theory of the emanation of the universe from a Divine Being, characterized by al-Farabi as “the First,” in whom essence and existence are absolutely one Al-Farabi's perspectives and speculations were impacted by two important sources of the religion of Islam and Greek philosophy. Al-Farabi acknowledges a portion of the Greek logicians' thoughts, but, he has been an owner of the activity and created in the field of philosophy. He was a founder of his own school of early Islamic philosophy. Al-Farabi believed to Islamic sources, and accepts them with reason and logic. The opinions and viewpoints of Al-Farabi are influenced by religion of