Al-Farabi

Al-Farabi (persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابي, Arabic: ابو نصر محمد الفارابي / Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī;^[1]) known in the West as Alpharabius^[2] (c. 872^[3] in Fārāb^[4] – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus^[4]), was a Persian scientist and philosopher of the Islamic world. He was also a cosmologist, logician, and musician.

References

↑ Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. accessed April 4, 2010. [1]
↑ Alternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi, Farabi, and Abunaser
↑ Corbin, Henry; Hossein Nasr and Utman Yahya (2001). History of Islamic Philosophy. Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0416-2.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Dhanani, Alnoor; et al. (2007). "Fārābī: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al‐Fārābī". In Thomas Hockey (ed.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 356–7. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)

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[Iranica-1] Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. accessed April 4, 2010. [1]

[2] Alternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi, Farabi, and Abunaser

[Henry_Corbin-3] Corbin, Henry; Hossein Nasr and Utman Yahya (2001). History of Islamic Philosophy. Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0416-2.

[BEA-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Dhanani, Alnoor; et al. (2007). "Fārābī: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al‐Fārābī". In Thomas Hockey (ed.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 356–7. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)

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