Medieval · c. 872–950
Who influenced Al-Farabi?
Influences and legacy
The Second Teacher after Aristotle — joined Plato's city and Muhammad's community.
Al-Farabi was influenced by Aristotle and Al-Kindi, and went on to influence Avicenna and Avempace. That is 4 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Al-Farabi?
Al-Farabi, known in Latin as Alpharabius, has been called the father of Islamic Neoplatonism and the founder of Islamic political philosophy. He is credited as the first in the Islamic world to present philosophy as a coherent system, and later writers named him the "Second Master" after Aristotle.
He wrote on logic, language, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and society, and was a practising musician and music theorist. Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides and Albertus Magnus are among those he influenced.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Al-Farabi?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
Who did Al-Farabi influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Al-Farabi.
The line of teachers behind Al-Farabi
The longest documented line of influence ending at Al-Farabi runs 7 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Al-Farabi
Indirect influences
The second generation
- Through Avicenna: Al-Ghazali, Ibn Tufail, Averroes, Maimonides, Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas
Contemporaries of Al-Farabi
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Al-Farabi, with no direct line between them.
- Al-Razi c. 865–925
- Saadia Gaon 882–942
Al-Farabi by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 16
- Thinkers downstream
- 152
- Wikipedia languages
- 82 — #12 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Al-Farabi
- Who influenced Al-Farabi?
- Aristotle and Al-Kindi.
- Who did Al-Farabi influence?
- Avicenna and Avempace.
- When did Al-Farabi live?
- c. 872–950. The map files Al-Farabi under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Al-Farabi card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Al-Farabi in 82 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More medieval philosophers
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Avicenna 980–1037
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415