al-Farabi الفارابي

He has been designated as “Father of Islamic Neoplatonism” and the “Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy”.

Full Name: Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi .

Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي

Other Names: Alpharabius

Born: 870 AD.

Died: 950 AD.

Origin: Faryab, Khorasan or Farab, Transoxiana.

Famous for: Islamic philosopher .

Contributions: 

He has been designated as “Father of Islamic Neoplatonism” and the “Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy”.

Al-Farabi is credited as the first Muslim who presented philosophy as a coherent system in the Islamic world.

Legacy:

• A large Kazakh university KazNU, bears his name. There is also an Al-Farabi Library on the university grounds.
• Shymkent Pedagogical Institute of Culture named after al-Farabi (1967–1996).
• In many cities of Kazakhstan there are streets named after him.
• Monuments have been erected in the cities of Alma-Ata, Shymkent and Turkestan.
• In 1975, the 1100th anniversary of al-Farabi’s birth was celebrated on a large international scale in Moscow, Alma-Ata and Baghdad.
• The main-belt asteroid 7057 Al-Fārābī was named in his honor.
• In November 2021, a monument to al-Farabi was unveiled in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farabi

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-farabi/

https://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/al-farabi.html

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/farabi-i

Books attributed to al-Farabi