al-Fārābī
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī · Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān · the Second Teacher · ابو نصر محمد بن طرخان · المعلم الثاني · محمد بن محمــد الفارابي
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Cited as having expressly stated that the celestial positions are posited, like the instants posited in time and the limits posited in distance.
posited in distance, as al-Fārābī expressly stated.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The Second Teacher, whose division of the living classifies the jinn as non-rational and non-mortal.
And in an epistle of the Second Teacher, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī, in answer to questions put to him, there is the like of this:
) The jinn is living, non-rational, non-mortal;
« Ibn Sīnā and al-Fārābī »
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
One of the three greatest philosophers of Islam in the author's reckoning, born at Farab in Khurasan and dead at Damascus, whose writings the editor calls of the greatest importance.
And men excelled in those philosophical sciences and framed a philosophy composed of the Greek principles and the Islamic teachings — and these are the philosophers of Islam, the greatest of them being the philosopher Ibn Sīnā (1), and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārābī (1), and Ibn Rushd of al-Andalus of the flying renown;
[13] (1) He is Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān.