The Political Writings Quotes

“To accept something on mere presumption and, likewise, to fail to investigate it may cover over, blind, and lead astray.”
― Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)

“Alfarabi first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv, where he began to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yūḥannā Ibn Haylān.”
― Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)

“Widely referred to as “the second teacher,” that is, second after Aristotle, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭarkhān Ibn Awzalagh al-Fārābī (Alfarabi) is generally heralded as having founded political philosophy within the Islamic cultural tradition.”
― Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (Agora Editions)