Al-Farabi

Al-Farabi (persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابي,  / ;Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. accessed April 4, 2010. )  known in the West as AlpharabiusAlternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi, Farabi, and Abunaser (c. 872 in Fārāb (PDF version) – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a Persian scientist and philosopher of the Islamic world. He was also a cosmologist, logician, and musician.

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