This book reflects on al-Farabi’s biography, works, basic concepts of his philosophical system in a plain and understandable language. al-Farabi, outstanding amongst his contemporaries as a thinker who transferred the philosophical heritage of antiquity to the Islamic cultural milieu, is an important representative, with Aristotelianist leanings, of the Neo-Platonist tradition. His fame as the “second teacher”, the first being Aristotle, in the East and West shows the magnitude of his place in the history of philosophy.

2019, 199 pgs. 
ISBN 978-975-389-958-1

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