See also:

• FARABI [Abu Na*r Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi] (ca. 870-950)

FARABI [See also:

• ABU

Abu Na*r Muhammad See also:

• IBN

ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi] (ca. 870-950)  , Arabian philosopher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish stock at See also:

• FARAH

Farah in See also:

• TURKESTAN
• TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

Turkestan, where also he spent his youth . Thence he journeyed to See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad, where he learned Arabic and gave himself to the study of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics, See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, especially the See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle . Later he went to the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of the )•ylamdanid Saif addaula, from whom he received a warm welcome and a small See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension . Here he lived a quiet if not an ascetic See also:

• LIFE

life . He died in See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus, whither he had gone with his See also:

• PATRON

patron . His works are very clear in See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, though aphoristic rather than systematic in the treatment of subjects . Unfortunately the success of See also:

• AVICENNA

Avicenna seems to have led to the neglect of much of his See also:

• WORK

work . In See also:

• EUROPE

Europe his compendium of Aristotle's See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

Rhetoric was published at See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, 1484 . Two of his smaller works appear in Alpharabii See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera omliia . (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1638), and two are translated in F . A . Schmolders' Documenta philosophiae Arabum (See also:

• BONN

Bonn, 1836) .

More recently Fr . Dieterici has published at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden: Alfarabi's philosophische Abhandlungen (1890; See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German trans . 1892); Alfarabi's Abhandlung See also:

• DES

des Musterstaats (1895; German trans. with an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay " Uber den Zusammenhang der arabischen and griechischen Philosophie," 19oo); See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Staatsleitung von Aifarabi in German, with an essay on " Das Wesen der arabischen Philosophie " (1904) . For See also:

• FARABI [Abu Na*r Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ul-Farabi] (ca. 870-950)

Farabi's life see McG. de Slane's See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

• IBN

Ibn Khallikan (vol . 3, pp . 307 ff.) ; and for further See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information as to his works M . See also:

• STEINSCHNEIDER, MORITZ (1816-1907)

Steinschneider's See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in the Memoires de l'Academie (St See also:

• PETERS (or PETER), HUGH (1598–166o)
• PETERS, KARL (1856– )

Peters-See also:

• BURG

burg, serie 7, tom . 13, No . 4, 1869) ; and C . Brockelmann's Gesch. der arab . Litteratur, vol. i . (See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, 1898), pp .

210-213 . (G . W .