Al-Farabi was an influential Islamic philosopher from the 10th century who studied in Baghdad and Farab. He wrote extensively on topics including music, sociology, philosophy, medicine, and politics. He sought to integrate Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy with Islamic theology. Al-Farabi viewed knowledge and philosophy as essential, arguing scholars should hold high positions in government. He believed the world's existence follows necessarily from God's absolute knowledge, not will, and did not consider the concept of God's will. Some of his views, like denying resurrection, faced religious conflicts.

1. Al-Farabi

2. Biography & Contributions
▪ Abu Nasir Muhammad bin MuhammadTarkhan bin uzlaq Al-Farabi
▪ Transoxia,Turki
▪ Early education in Farab, Kazakhstan, then further his studies in
Baghdad
▪ Qanaah – does not love and interest on worldy things; focus on
seeking knowledge
▪ Die at the year of 950M (339H)

3. ▪ Famous Islamic scholar
▪ Philosophy, logic, physics, chemistry, metaphysic, politic, music,
medicine, history
▪ Great expert musician – create gambus, music note
▪ Express his knowledge and work in the form of writing and books:
▪ Al-musiqa (music)
▪ Ara ahl Al-Madina Al-Fadila (sociology)
▪ Fusus al-Hikam (philosophy)
▪ Ethics, metaphysics, medicine

5. ▪ Islamic philosopher – influenced by philosophy ofYunani (Aristotle
and Plato)
▪ Classified as “Neoplanonist”: combine philosophy of Plato and
Aristotle
▪ Study and investigate more on philosophy and theory by Socrates,
Plato and Aristotle: to produce a well-arranged knowledge of logic
(mantik) in Arabic
▪ Simplify knowledge of logic:
▪ Idea (takhayyul)
▪ Prove (thubut)

6. ▪ In medicine, stated that heart is more important than brain
▪ Heart provide warmth to the body meanwhile brain only control the
warmth according to the body needed
▪ Combine theories by Plato and Aristotle with theology and explain
that philosophy and Islam exist in harmony
▪ Among the Islamic scholar, known as second Aristotle
▪ Knowledge is everything and scholar should be placed in high
hierarchy in the government – same with Confucius

7. AL-FARABI
The arguments on the existence of God and cosmology.

8. ▪ Al-Farabi does not make a distinction between the knowledge of
God and the will of God.
▪ The absolutely knowledge of God is the very source of existence.
▪ There is no will to control or initiate the coming into existence.
▪ The existence of the world follows necessarily from the absolute
knowledge of the divine.

9. The becoming
of Intellect
The becoming
of the Celestial
bodies
The becoming
of the Sublunary
System

12. Conflicts:
1. The eternity of the world.
2. The denial of resurrection.
3. Did not consider the concept of the will of God.
“ the absolute knowledge of God id the very source of existence,
thus there is no will to control or to initiate the coming into
existence.”
-The existence of the world follows necessarily from the
absolute knowledge of the Divine.