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Al-Farabi

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Muslim scholar
Name:	Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārābī[1]
Title:	The Second Teacher[2]
Birth:	c. 872[2]
Death:	c. 950[2]
Region:	Iran, Egypt and Syria
Maddhab:	Muslim
School tradition:	known as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism"; gave rise to the Farabian school[1]
Main interests:	Metaphysics, Political philosophy, Logic, Music, Science(Tabi'iat), Ethics, Mysticism,[2] Epistemology and Medicine
Works:	kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr ("The Great Book Of Music"), ārā ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila ("The Virtuous City"), kitāb iḥṣāʾ al-ʿulūm ("On The Introduction Of Knowledge"), kitāb iḥṣāʾ al-īqā'āt ("Classification Of Rhythms")[2]
Influences:	Aristotle, Plato, Porphyry, Ptolemy[citation needed], Al-Kindi
Influenced:	Avicenna, Yahya ibn Adi, Abu Sulayman Sijistani, Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, Ibn Bajjah, Mulla Sadra[2] Al Amiri, Averroes, Maimonides and Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Leo Strauss[3]