Al-Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Naṣr, 873-950

"Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Fārābī o, en algunas fuentes, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarjan ibn Uzalag al-Fārābī (en turco, Farabi, en persa, ابو نصر محمد فارابی), conocido en Occidente con el nombre de Farabius, Al-Farabi, Farabi, Abunaser o Alfarabi, fue un filósofo medieval y polímata centroasiático túrquico. Nació en Wasil en 872 en el distrito de Farab en el Turquestán Occidental (actual Turkmenistán y antaño Transoxiana) y murió en Damasco, Siria en 950. Estudió todas las ciencias y las artes de su tiempo por lo que se le llamó Maestro Segundo, por referencia a Aristóteles, el Maestro Primero Estudió en Bagdad (Irak). A él se debe el comentario de La República de Platón y un Sumario de las Leyes de Platón"."

"Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Arabic: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد الفارابي Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī; for other recorded variants of his name see below), known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 in Fārāb - between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar. In Arabic philosophical tradition, he is known with the honorific "the Second Master", after Aristotle. He is credited with preserving the original Greek texts during the Middle Ages because of his commentaries and treatises, and influencing many prominent philosophers, like Avicenna and Maimonides. Through his works, he became well-known in the East as well as the West."