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Al Farabi
August 15, 2007 - 04:11 AM
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Born of Persian stock, al-Fārābi's parents had moved to Wasij, near Farab, Turkestan, where he was born. He travelled extensively throughout his life, though he spent much of his time in Baghdad, where his main teacher was Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus, a Christian Aristotelian from Syria, and where he studied Arabic. At one stage he said to have been a qadi (judge), and to have been caretaker of a garden; he certainly spent much of his life teaching and writing. He produced introductions to philosophy, original works of scholarship on logic, music, medicine, and the sciences, and commentaries on Aristotle, though he was influenced by the misattributed Theology of Aristotle, and read Aristotle through neo-Platonist eyes. His written style was not terribly clear, however.
While visiting Halab (now Aleppo) in Syria, he gained the patronage of the local ruler, Sayf al-Dawla, and it was during his time there that his fame spread throughout the Muslim world. He was dubbed the second teacher, Aristotle having been the first. Details of his death are even vaguer than those of his life, and he is variously said to have died peacefully in Damascus and to have been killed by bandits.
Al-Fārābi's view of philosophy was very different from that of al-Kindi (and more typical of Muslim philosophers): philosophy was the supreme product of the human mind, and the only way to genuine knowledge. For non-philosophers, some access to the truth was possible, but through the distorting lens of symbols, which are different for different societies. Thus, philosophy is universal, but other accounts of the truth – most significantly, the religious accounts – are culturally relative. He accepted the Koran's status as revealed truth, but its status was limited to its own cultural context; Islam couldn't be exported to other cultures, which had their own symbolic expressions of truth.
for more information :
http://tacmahal.org/haberoku.asp?tr=ceviri&page=6
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