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    Al-Farabi was a 10th century Islamic philosopher from Turkestan who greatly influenced Islamic philosophical thought. He studied Greek philosophy and logic extensively and translated works of Plato and Aristotle. Al-Farabi made significant contributions across various fields, including logic, metaphysics, music, physics and language. He sought to harmonize Greek philosophy with Islamic doctrines and paved the way for the work of later thinkers such as Ibn Sina.

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    Al-Farabi was a 10th century Islamic philosopher from Turkestan who greatly influenced Islamic philosophical thought. He studied Greek philosophy and logic extensively and translated works of Plato and Aristotle. Al-Farabi made significant contributions across various fields, including logic, metaphysics, music, physics and language. He sought to harmonize Greek philosophy with Islamic doctrines and paved the way for the work of later thinkers such as Ibn Sina.

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    Al-Farabi was an Islamic scholar and philosopher who made significant contributions to logic, mathematics, music and philosophy. He worked to transmit the ideas of Plato and Aristotle to the Islamic world.

    Al-Farabi received his early education in Farab and Bukhara where he studied Islam and music. He later went to Baghdad for higher studies in Greek language and philosophy.

    Al-Farabi had a considerable influence on later Islamic philosophers such as Avicenna. He helped transmit the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle to the Muslim world.

    PREPARED BY: EH2206B - AMNI BINTI SAUFIAN(2016718381) - ANIS AFIQAH BT MOHAMAD NAZARUDDIN (2016351891)

    AL FARABI
    Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi

    Al-Farabi’s real name is Abu Nasr Muhammad


    bin Muhammad bin Tarchan Al-Farabi

    Also know as Alfarabius and Avennasar in


    the west

    BIODATA Al-Farabi was born and raised in Wasij,


    Turkestan

    He was born around 890 (257 H) and passed


    away in 861 (339 H)

    One of the earliest Islamic intellectuals


    Transmitting the doctrines of Plato and
    Aristotle to the Muslim world

    Had a considerable influence on the


    later Islamic philosophers such as
    Avicenna

    BIODATA
    An outstanding linguist who translated
    the Greek works of Aristotle and Plato
    and made considerable additions to
    them of his own

    Earned the nickname Mallim-e-Sani


    which means “second teacher
    Earlier education at Farab and Bukhara
    where Al–Farabi studied further about
    Islam and music

    Later he went to Baghdad for higher


    studies and got deeper into the Greek
    language under the guidance of a
    translator named Abu Bish Matta Yunus
    EDUCATIONAL
    BACKGROUND He learned philosophy from a Christian
    teacher named Yuhanna b. Haylan in
    Harran

    Acquired mastery of several languages as


    well as various branches of knowledge
    and technology
    Judge in Damsyik

    Al farabi worked as a judge once in


    Damsyik but he realized that the job made
    him astray from the society.

    EXPERIENCES Translator for all his life

    He spent the rest of his life reviewing the


    philosophy works from Yunani such as
    works of Plato and Aristotle.
    1. Hunger for knowledge
    o He is very diligent in seeking for knowledge.
    o Instead of using his knowledge for gaining world profit, he lived as a
    poor man until he last breath

    2. Modest
    PERSONALITY o Qana’ah
    o He always had the feeling contentment with the blessings Allah s.w.t.
    has bestowed upon him.

    3. Disciplined and determined


    o He travelled far for knowledge and he never forget his root, where
    he came from.
    DIVISION AND CLASSFICIATION

    Collect and generalized

    OBJECTIVES OF Arrange and harmonized


    LIFE

    Analysed in order to compose

    Divides and sub-divides in order to concentrate and


    classify
    Al- Farabi’s work on Ibn Sina was not limited merely
    to illuminating Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

    Briefest of comparisons between the tenfold hierarchy


    of intellection produced by al-Farabi and the similar
    hierarchy espoused by Ibn Sina, each of which gives a
    key role to the Tenth Intellect, shows that in matters
    INFLUENCE of emanation, hierarchy and Neoplatonic intellection,
    Ibn Sina owes a considerable intellectual debt to his
    predecessor.

    Influenced many other thinkers who flourished


    between ah 256/ad 870 and ah 414/ad 1023 such as
    Yahya ibn ‘Adi, Abu Sulayman al-Sijistani, Abu Al-Hasan
    Muhammad ibn Yusuf al’Amiri and Abu Hayyan al-
    Tawhidi.
    Farabi exercised great influence on science and
    knowledge for several centuries. Unfortunately, the
    book Theology of Aristotle, as was not available to him
    at that time was regarded by him as genuine, although
    later on it turned out to be the work of some Neo-
    INFLUENCE
    Platonist writer. Despite this, he was regarded the
    Second Teacher in philosophy for centuries and his
    work, aimed at synthesis of philosophy and Sufism,
    paved the way for Abu Ali Sina's (Avicenna) work.
    MUSIC

    PHYSICS
    CONTRIBUTION

    PHILOSOPHY

    LANGUAGE
    MUSIC

    He wrote books on music:


    1. Kitab al-Musiqa or The Book of Music.
     He presents philosocophical principles about music, its cosmic
    qualities and its influences.
    2. Meaning of the Intellect
     This book dealt with music therapy and discussed the
    therapeutic effects of music on the soul.
    CONTRIBUTION
    PHYSICS

    Al-Farabi composed a short treatise "On Vacuum", where he pondered


    the idea of the presence of void. He likewise may have completed the
    primary analyses concerning the presence of vacuum, wherein he
    examined handheld plungers in water. His last decision was that air's
    volume can extend to occupy accessible space, and he recommended
    that the idea of impeccable vacuum was incongruous.
    PHILOSOPHY

    1. Logic
    o ‘ the art of logic gives in general, the rules which if followed can
    correct the mind and direct man to the right way to truth away the
    pitfalls of error.
    o Help us attaining the right way of thinking or in guiding other
    people
    CONTRIBUTION o Indicating that intelligible are to be tested by its rules, as dimensions,
    volumes and masses are by measurement.

    2. The Theory of Ten Intelligence


    o A significant part in Islamic philosophy where offers an explanation
    of two world; heaven and earth and interprets the phenomena of
    movement and change.
    o Al-Farabi holds that the One i.e., God is the Necessary by himself.
    PHILOSOPHY

    3. Political science
    o Create the framework that allow some of the preconditions for
    subsuming important features of political reality under these
    universals.
    o Ara Ahl Madinah Al-Fadhilah
    o Al Farabi identifies four different types of corrupt city;
    i. the ignorant city (al-madina al-jahiliyya)
    ii. the dissolute city (al-madina al-fasiqa)
    iii. the turncoat city (al-madina al-mubaddala)
    CONTRIBUTION iv. the straying city (al-madina al-dalla)

    4. Epistemology
    o Concerned with the study of knowledge.
    o Six categories of human intellect
    i. Discernment
    ii. Common sense
    iii. Natural perception
    iv. Conscience
    v. Four subsequent intellects
    vi. Divine reason
    PHILOSOPHY

    5. Metaphysics
    o Fundamental nature of the human being and the world
    o Used the works of Plato’s Republic and Aristotelian terminology
    o Hierarchy of being where God is the first being and at top at the
    hierarchy

    CONTRIBUTION 6. Psychology
    o Scientific study of human mind and its function
    o He draws on a basic Aristotelian outline on his treatment of the
    human soul
    o Psychological view of humanity was that of an isolated individual
    who cannot achieve perfection alone and requires the aid of many
    other individual where it is reflected in terms of politics and
    philosophical thought.
    o Human soul and mid are a combination of the metaphysical
    components and the science of epistemology that drives a person
    to its action.
    LANGUAGE

    o He acquired mastery over several languages.


    o He translated a few of Greek manuscript into Arabian and his works
    CONTRIBUTION were translated into English by newer translators
    Although many of his books have been lost, 117 are known, out of
    which 43 are on logic, 11 on metaphysics, 7 on ethics, 7 on political
    science, 17 on music, medicine and sociology, while 11 are
    commentaries. Some of his more famous books include the book
    Fosos al-Hikam, which remained a textbook of philosophy for several
    BOOKS centuries at various centres of learning and is still taught at some of
    the institutions in the East. The book Ketab al-lhsa al Oloum discusses
    classification and fundamental principles of science in a unique and
    useful manner. The book Ara Ahl al-Madina al-Fadila is a significant
    early contribution to sociology and political science.
    1. At-Tahtawi fi al-Mantiq
    2. Introductory Section on Logic
    3. Treatise in the Canons of Art of Poetry
    4. On Vacuum
    BOOKS 5. Agains AstrologI
    6. Aboot tye Scope of Aristotles Metafisics
    7. Fi al-Wahid wa al-Wahda
    8. Ihsa al-Ulum
    9. Kitab al-Musiqa
    o Al farabi was modest throughout his life.
    o He never took advantage of other people by using his knowledge he
    had.
    o He did not chase dunya and never used his ability to make money
    or other form of profits.

    WHAT C AN WE
    GET FROM AL
    FARABI?

    o He was a hardworking person.


    o He never gave up in searching new knowledge to improve himself.
    o Al Farabi’s doctrine is so fully harmonious and
    consistent that its part are completely inter-related.
    This doctrine is at the same time spiritualistic and
    idealistic, for al-Farabi reduces almost everything to
    spirit.
    CONCLUSION

    o Throughout his life of restless scientific inquiry, Al


    Farabi produced an impressive, to put it mildly,
    collection of scripts and books on an equally
    impressive range of subjects.
    o The study of ethics was presented in a different
    perspective, contributed to the development of
    musical theory and categorized the different
    CONCLUSION
    sciences. His work on political issues and the
    ordering of the state was admirable for its truly
    innovative and yet extremely logical approach.
    REFERENCES
    1. https://www.gradesaver.com/alfarabi-the-political-
    writings/wikipedia/works-and-contributions

    THANK
    2. https://www.al-islam.org/history-muslim-philosophy-volume-
    1-book-3/chapter-23-al-farabi#2-unity-philosophy

    YOU
    3. http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/h021
    4. https://www.alshindagah.com/novdec03/alfarabi.htm
    5. https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimp
    ressions/2018/09/al-farabis-general-political-science-and-
    history.html
    6. http://4tokohilmuanmuslim.blogspot.com/2017/04/al-farabi-
    tokoh-falsafah-islam-yang.html

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