Al-Farabi – one of the greatest Eastern philosophers, an outstanding scientist and enlightener - was born in 870 in the town of Farab (nowadays part of modern Kazakhstan).
Having left his native town while a young man, al-Farabi visited all the major cultural centres of the medieval Arab and Islamic world: Bukhara, Merv, Harran, Alexandria, Cairo, Baghdad, Aleppo and Damascus, where he lived, studied and worked. He spent his last years, died and was buried in Damascus in 950.
The range of al-Farabi’s scholarly interests and research included astronomy, logic, theory of music and mathematics, sociology and ethics, medicine and psychology, philosophy, and law.
As an intellectual, Al-Farabi was a world-class personality. He succeeded in conciliating and bringing together the most valuable achievements of Arab, Persian, Greek, Indian and his native, Turkic, scientific thought, and culture, all of which found reflection in his numerous philosophical and scientific treatises. Al-Farabi’s legacy also includes his extensive commentaries on works by Aristotle and Plato. The most important treatises authored by al-Farabi have survived until our times and are stored in the best libraries in the world.
The publishing house " Kazakh University" of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University has produced works by the great thinker Al-Farabi in various fields of science, which you can find on the website: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ALPCcHY21TPLMtk&cid=AE92B5FD9E544F15&id=AE92B5FD9E544F15%211260&parId=root&o=OneUp