Abstract:
Addition to historical analyses, three different types of reading of the
ideas of al-Farabi have been offered: First, the connection between his
ideas and the Greek thought; second, the connection between his ideas
and theology, and the relationship that can be established between
philosophy and religiousness; and third, the explication of al-Farabi’s
ideas on the basis of the crisis (-es) he faced. In the present article the
relationship between al-Farabi’s philosophy and Greece, Islam and the
social crisis of the time are elaborated on.
Machine summary:
1 An important point highlighted by some researchers is that Muslim philosophers, such as al-Farabi paid more attention to Plato, because his philosophy was more compatible with their religious and political situation.
2. Hans Daiber, The Ismaili Background of Farabi’s Political Philosophy: Abuhatam Al-Razi as a Forerunner of Farabi (1992), in Karimi Zanjani Asl, Mohammad, Iranian political thought for Hallaj to Sajestani, Tehran: Kavir Publications, 1383, p.
J. Humanities (2014) Vol. 21(1) respect al-Farabi’s tendency to demonstrate the truth of revelation through philosophy, therefore, I do not interpret his ideas as an endorsement of the superiority of reason over revelation…; in the first place he is a Muslim, and in the second he is a student of Plato and Aristotle, and their commentators and Hellenistic successors.
Ali Morshedzadeh, The History of Islamic Philosophy, under the supervision of Seyyed Hassan Nasr and Oliver Leaman, 137 Three Different Readings of al-Farabi’s Political Philosophy...
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