Al-Farabi

الفَارَابِي

The Second Teacher — systematised logic and political philosophy

Born: 872 CE, Farab

Died: 950 CE, Damascus

Era: Classical

Field: Philosophy, Music, Logic

Origin: Farab, Central Asia

Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi was a 10th-century Turkic-Persian polymath who systematised logic after Aristotle. Known as "The Second Teacher" (after Aristotle), he also founded the philosophy of music theory and wrote extensively on political philosophy, mathematics and cosmology.