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