We still lack critical editions,įull English translations-and even, at times, translation in any More current bibliographiesĪllow for more detailed research. Translations have led to deeper studies of his thought and to some NewĪnd better editions of his works as well as new and better Important medieval musical treatise in Islamic lands and also includesīeginning in the 1980s, much has happened in Farabian scholarship. Is known as “the second master” (the first one, of course,Īl-kabîr or Great Book of Music is the most Was Turkish but more recent research points to him being a Scholars have disputed his ethnic origin. Gone to Egypt but died in Damascus in December 950 CE or January 951ĬE (AH 339). In 943 CE (AH 331) he went to Syria and Damascus. In his youth he moved to Iraq andīaghdad. We know little that is really reliable aboutĪl-Fârâbî was probably born in 870 CE (AH 257) in a
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