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    Politics, religion, and philosophy in Al-Farabi's Book of Religion

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    2014-08
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    Siddiqi, Ahmed Ali
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    This thesis offers an interpretation of Al-Farabi’s Book of Religion, in which the tenth- century philosopher addresses more directly than in any of his other works the relationship between human and divine wisdom. Believing Farabi to be a philosopher in the full sense of the term, I attempt to approach his writing in the spirit of his own approach to the writings of Plato and Aristotle. I argue that the discussions of religion, philosophy, and political science found in the text constitute a single teaching, through which Farabi addresses some of the most fundamental questions facing man as both a political and spiritual animal.
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    Government
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    Politics
    Political science
    Political theory
    Philosophy
    Political philosophy
    Religion
    Religious philosophy
    Medieval philosophy
    Alfarabi
    Al-Farabi
    Farabi
    Islamic philosophy
    Medieval Islamic philosophy
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/27554
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