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The Music of the Spheres: How Al-Farabi, the Second Teacher, Wove Together Reason, Revelation, and the Perfect City

The Music of the Spheres: How Al-Farabi, the Second Teacher, Wove Together Reason, Revelation, and the Perfect City

Hikma, Narin

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ISBN13: 9798255103799
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

He was called the Second Teacher, because the first was Aristotle and there was no third place available.

You have probably never heard of him. That is not an accident, and it is the strangest thing about him.

Abu Nasr al-Farabi gave his civilisation the logic it argued with, the map by which it organised everything it knew, the greatest book on music produced in the medieval world, and the most beautiful description of a human community ever written in Arabic. One of his commentaries, bought secondhand for three coins by a young man who did not want it, unlocked Aristotle for the finest mind of the following age. Three hundred years after he died, Europe was arranging its first universities according to a scheme he had drawn up.

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