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FARABI [Abu Na*r Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi] (ca. 870-950)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 173 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FARABI [Abu Na*r Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi] (ca. 870-950) , Arabian philosopher, was born of Turkish stock at Farah in
Turkestan
 , where also he spent his youth. Thence he journeyed to Bagdad, where he learned Arabic and gave himself to the study of mathematics,
medicine
  and philosophy, especially the works of
Aristotle
 . Later he went to the
court
  of the )ylamdanid Saif addaula, from whom he received a warm welcome and a small pension. Here he lived a quiet if not an ascetic
life
 .
He died in Damascus, whither he had gone with his patron. His works are very clear in style, though aphoristic rather than systematic in the treatment of subjects. Unfortunately the success of Avicenna seems to have led to the neglect of much of his
work
 . In Europe his compendium of
Aristotle
 's
Rhetoric
  was published at Venice, 1484. Two of his smaller works appear in Alpharabii opera omliia. (Paris, 1638), and two are translated in F. A. Schmolders' Documenta philosophiae Arabum (
Bonn
 , 1836). More recently Fr. Dieterici has published at Leiden: Alfarabi's philosophische Abhandlungen (1890; German trans. 1892); Alfarabi's Abhandlung des Musterstaats (1895; German trans. with an essay " Uber den Zusammenhang der arabischen and griechischen Philosophie," 19oo); Die Staatsleitung von Aifarabi in German, with an essay on " Das Wesen der arabischen Philosophie " (1904).
For Farabi's
life
  see McG. de Slane's
translation
  of Ibn Khallikan (vol. 3, pp. 307 ff.) ; and for further information as to his works M. Steinschneider's article in the Memoires de l'Academie (St Peters-burg, serie 7, tom. 13, No. 4, 1869) ; and C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der arab. Litteratur, vol. i. (
Weimar
 , 1898), pp. 210-213. (G. W. T.)


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