The Politics of Al-Farabi (video lecture)
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- Al-Farabi (Latinized: Alpharabius) was one of the most prolific philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age. He would come to be known as “The Second Teacher" in Arabic philosophical tradition, after none other than Aristotle, “The First Teacher”. Al-Farabi revived political philosophy in a time when Abrahamic religions had pushed that discipline into obscurity and, in doing so, he recovered parts of ancient Greek thought that were almost forgotten. Al-Farabi laid the groundwork for some of the greatest Western thinkers of the Renaissance.
This is Episode 01 in the series Medieval Thought on the political science channel Inventing Civilization.
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Lou, E. [Inventing Civilization]. (2016-08-16). The Politics of Al-Farabi (video lecture) [video file]. Retrieved from • The Politics of Al-Far...
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If this video has sparked your interest in Al-Farabi and you'd like to know more, you might enjoy reading one or more of the following books:
Butterworth, C.E. (2001). Al-Farabi: The Political Writings. Ithaca, NJ: Cornell University Press.
Fakhry, M. (2002). Al-Farabi, Founder of Islamic Neoplatonism: His Life, Works and Influence. Oxford: One World.
Galston, M. (2014). Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Mahdi, M.S. (2001). Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Man you were fluent like a master.Never distracted me for even a second
You should definitely do Al Farabi part two! Also Al Ghazal, and Avicenna
Alghazali cannot be on one sentence with Avincenna or Averros!
He was anti-philosophy
@@hosamelsayed5723 You are an idiot if you think that. Even Ibn Taymiyah was a philosopher
@@hosamelsayed5723 Al Ghazzali only made statements similar to modern warnings of AI getting out of hand. Al Ghzzali was a philosopher and a master of kelam as well as shafii fiqh
@@zccau2316 you must be a donkey to even say something like this.
@@hosamelsayed5723 you are clearly never read any of Al Ghazali's book before
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I’m honestly surprised that you have only 2k followers. This should be a 100k subscriber channel. Keep up the great work.
Clear, concise, interesting and engaging! And relevant. Thank you.
O God this channel needs a million subscribers!!!
Such clarity in explanation
This channel does an amazing job of understanding and explaining Islamic thought-thank you!
I wish, though, that either you'd do a bit more research on Christian views of things (like the relationship of faith and reason) or else not mention it.
Excellent video with an excellent teacher. I hope hear more from him. Thanks so much.
thanks for this!! i have final on this friday and this actually helps me in understanding his philosophy
This is a really good video. I actually was searching up religious philosophy, but this political philosophy is very relevant to learning about the way Al Farabi viewed the world. Thanks, a very informative and well structured lecture. It would be awesome with animations and more images to match spoken content. Again, very informative and insightful!
Sir good work... Thanks
thank you so much for this channel! i love all your videos...and thanks for posting the referenced books below the video! really excellent work...looking forward to more of your videos on avicenna and ibn rushd :)
This was very well done. Thank you for the effort you put into it.
All your videos I've watched so far are well researched, and your teaching style is clear and flows nicely. I hope you start making videos again. 🙂
Are you a teacher? Your way of teaching is so good. :)
Wow, it has explained so much in 10 minutes
Hi, awesome video. Just a note from Persian (Parsi/Farsi) language; all the AL in the names are is silent for us. Not sure about Arabic pronunciation though.
doesn't work the same way in arabic
very excellent explanation which saved me for my seminar. Thank you.
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Al farabi was persian
Farabi was Iranian, not Mongol
Thnx for this informative video but pls make more videos on other western n Muslim political philosopher
Yeah you truly deserve more subscribers ...
Being a teacher myself.... It helped alot...
please make more videos and upload them..
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just found your channel and I've subscribed to it. thanks for your valuable explanation, it helped me a lot.
He was from Faryab Khorasan ( Afghanistan )
Very good, dude. Subscribed on the strength of this alone
Al Farabi colour green. Al Ghazali colour orange. Al Razi colour pink and Al Biruni colour blue.....In my school there are competition on 4 scientist with sports
Just wao.
You nailed it man..
Very good way of explanation..
Ancient Greek thought was "smothered" by Christianity? Actually Christians disagreed about the value of Greek philosophy and poetry but many of them adopted it. There was a whole school of followers of Plato called Christian Platonism, others were Neoplatonist, and many prominent Christians, such as Cassiodorus and Boethius, put great effort into translating and copying Greek texts.
The problem was that Christians in the west stopped studying Greek, so they only knew the Greeks through translation, which was harder to come by as the empire declined, and as a result the knowledge of many texts (especially of Aristotle) were lost. But in the East the Byzantines continued to study and make copies of the ancients. And when the West did finally get access to Aristotle from Muslims, he also was read and studied and integrated into Christian thought.
Sa' ada.
The Second Teacher.
thank u for this great video lecture
Great and concise introduction of Al Farabi .
Subbed! Love your stuff man!
May Allah grant him jannah
great video. Very helpful. Do you have a video on Maimonides?
Crisp and to the point. 👍
Matchless lecture
Great work
amazing. thanks a lot
I enjoyed it thanks you sir
Amazing
Thank you
Thanks
Thanks :)
My name is Farabi. My parents named me this after him lol
amazing!
Nice
Farabi is the first turkish philosopher.. Do you know this fact? He wrote arabic but he is not arabic, he is turkish. He was born in turkhistan and lived in arabic peninsula.
He was Turk, but for sure i can say that he was NOT Turkish. He was born in Farab (now Otrar) located in Middle East
rolla
He was from.faryyab Afghanistan...
there was no Turkey back then xD
He was arab from turkish background
Not Turkish!!!! it is TURKIC!!! Turkish did not existed by that time! there were Turkic nations of Turkestan
OMG at first look i thought Jonny sins is teaching political science 😂😂😂😂
What is divine happinness? Please explain
That’s wrong to say, there was no state, the Islamic state was established in Medina
Dislike for saying that al-Farabi's thesises are not his own ideas, but simply ancient Greek ideas suited to use in Islamic world.
I don't think so, because anyone who is familiar with farabis work, knows who it is linked to greeks philosophy, even by ordinary 8 grade student in middleeast
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So leviathan?
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Enjoy your vids, but in the fact-checking dept.: The infallibility of the pope to interpret the bible as it relates to moral issues is not contemporaneous with al-Farabi. In fact, that belief begins many centuries later. You do seem quick to malign Europeans/Christians and loathe to do the same for Muslims. Al-Farabi tried to reconcile classical philosophy with religion, which is as undesirable as it is impossible as the former is an honest attempt to understand the world, and the latter a retreat from that effort.
I don't know what this guy is talking about, the philosophy of Aristotle never went away or was forgotton in Europe.
dakusan 90 no it was forgotten until the renaissance.
dakusan 90 since it was deemed to be heretical
it was forgotten for more then a thousand years
it was revived by Islamic Translation Movement.
meh nothing useful.