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Bibliographies
- Al-Mawrid (Special Issue on Al-Farabi), 4(3), 1975.
- Chavooshi, Jafar Aghayani, Al-Fārābī: An
Annotated Bibliography, Tehran, 1976.
- Cunbur, Müjgan, Ismet Ninark & Nejat Sefercioglu,
Fārābī Bibliyografyasi, Ankara: Bashakanhk
Basimevi, 1973.
- Daiber, Hans, Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy (from
the 15th Century to 1999) 2 vol., Leiden: Brill, 1999 and
its Supplement, Leiden: Brill, 2007, much complete and update
these pioneers works.
- Druart, Thérèse-Anne,
Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval and Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy and Theology,
available online in yearly installments and includes a section on
al-Fārābī.
- Rescher, Nicholas, Al-Fārābī: An Annotated
Bibliography, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
1962.
Dictionary
- Alon, Ilai and Shukri B. Abed,
Al-Fārābī’s Philosophical Lexicon, 2
volumes (volume I: Arabic Text; volume II: English translation).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 (provides
al-Fārābī’s own definitions of technical
philosophical terms). (Scholar)
Primary Literature
Works by al-Fārābī
The following are listed by editors/translators:
- Abram, Sara, 2020, “Note di Abū Naṣrr
al-Fārābī sulla verità e falsità
dell’astrologia”, Medioevo, 45:
235–77. (Scholar)
- al-‘Ajam, Rafīq & Majid Fakhry (eds.),
1985–87, al-Fārābī, al-mantiq ‘inda
al-Fārābī, in 4 volumes, Beirut: Dar
al-Mashriq.
- Badawi, ‘Abdurrahman, 1983, Traites philosophiques par
al-Kindi, al-Fārābī, Ibn Bajjah & Ibn ‘Adyy, 3rd
edition, Beirut: Dar Al-Andaloss. (Scholar)
- Bonadeo, Cecilia Martini (ed.), 2008, al-Fārābī,
L’armonia delle opinioni dei due sapienti, il divino Platone
e Aristotele, Pisa: Plus. (Scholar)
- Bouyges, Maurice (trans. and ed.), 1983, Alfarabi, Risalat
fi’l-‘Aql, 2nd edition, Beirut: Imprimerie
Catholique. (Scholar)
- Butterworth, Charles E. (ed. and trans.), 2001, Alfarabi, The Political Writings: “Selected Aphorisms” and Other Texts (Volume I), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed. and trans.), 2015, Alfarabi, The
Political Writings: “Political Regime” and “Summary
of Plato’s Laws” (Volume II), Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed. and trans.), 2024, Alfarabi, Book
of Letters, Berkeley: Zaytuna College Press. (Scholar)
- Chatti, Saloua & Hodges, Wilfrid (trans.), 2020,
Al-Fārābī, Syllogism: An Abdrigement of
Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
- Cherni, Amor (trans. and ed.), 2015, al-Fārābī,
Le recensement des sciences, Paris: Al Bouraq. (Scholar)
- Dānishpazuh, Muhammad Taqī (ed.), 1987–89,
al-Fārābī, al-mantiqiyyāt
lilfārābī, 3 volumes, Qumm: Matba‘at
Bahman.
- Diebler, Stéphane (trans), 2007,
al-Fārābī, Philosopher à Bagdad au Xe
siècle, introduction by Ali Benmakhlouf, glossary by
Pauline Koetschet, Paris: Seuil. (Scholar)
- DiPasquale, David M. (trans.), 2019, Alfarabi’s Book of
Dialectic (Kitāb al-Jadal): On the Starting Point of Islamic
Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Druart, Thérèse-Anne (ed.), 1998, “Le Sommaire
du livre des ‘Lois’ de Platon”, Bulletin
d’Études Orientales, 50: 109–55; (Scholar)
- d’Erlanger, Rodolphe (trans.), 1930–35, La musique
arabe: Al-Fārābī, Grand Traité de la
Musique, vol. I–II, Paris: Geuthner, reprint (Paris:
2001). (Scholar)
- Ezzaher, Lahcen E. (ed.), 2008, “Alfarabi’s Book
of Rhetoric: An Arabic-English translation of Alfarabi’s
Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric”,
Rhetorica, 26(4): 347–91. (Scholar)
- ––– (transl.), 2015, Three Arabic Treatises
on Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” (translation,
introduction, & notes), Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press , pp. 12–49. (Scholar)
- Galonnier, A. (ed. and trans.), 2016, Le ‘De scientiis
Alfarabii’ de Gérarde de Crémone: Contributions
aux problèmes de l’acculturation au XIIe siècle.
Étude introductive et édition critique, traduite et
annotée, Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
- van Gelder, Geert Jan & Marlé Hammond (trans. and eds),
2008, Takhyīl: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic
Poetics, Exeter: Gibb Memorial Trust, pp. 15–23. (Scholar)
- Gundissalinus, Dominicus [ca. 1150] (transl.), 2006,
al-Fārābī, Über die Wissenschaften (de
scientiis), Jakob Hans Josef Schneider (ed.), Freiburg: Herder
.
- Khalidi, Muhammad Ali (ed. and trans.), 2005,
al-Fārābī, “The Book of Letters”, in his
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 1–26. (Scholar)
- Lugal, Necati & Aydin Sayili, 1951, “Maqāla
fī l-Khalā”, Belleten (Türk Tarih
Kurumu), 15: 1–16 & 21–36. (Scholar)
- Mahdi, Muhsin (ed.), 1968, al-Fārābi, Utterances
Employed in Logic, introduction and notes, Beirut: Dar
el-Mashreq. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1969a, Alfarabi’s Book of
Letters (Kitab al-Huruf), Arabic text, introduction and notes,
Beirut: Dar el-Mashreq. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1969b, Alfarabi’s
Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, translated with an
introduction, 2nd edition, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press; reprinted 2002. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1989, Alfarabi’s On One and
Unity, Casablanca: Toubkal . (Scholar)
- Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia, Marianna Zarantonello, Giovanni
Mandolino, Luca Farina, Sara Abram, 2023, al-Fārābī: L’uno e
l’unità, Pisa: Pisa University Press.
- McGinnis, Jon & David C. Reisman (eds.), 2007, Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, pp. 54–120. (Scholar)
- Najjar, Fauzi M. (ed.), 1964,
Al-Fārābī’s The Political Regime,
with introduction & notes, Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique . (Scholar)
- Neria, Cahim Meir, 2013,
“Al-Fārābī’s Lost Commentary on the
Ethics: New Textual Evidence”, Arabic Sciences and
Philosophy, 23(1): 69–99. (Scholar)
- Rashed, Marwan, 2008, “Al-Fārābī’s
lost treatise On changing beings and the possibility of a
demonstration of the eternity of the world”, Arabic Sciences
and Philosophy, 18(1): 19–58. (Scholar)
- Sawa, George Dimitri, 2009, Rhythmic Theories and Practices in
Arabic Writings to 339 AH/950 CE : Annotated translations and
commentaries, Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music. (Scholar)
- Sayili, Aydin, 1951, “Al-Farabi’s Article on
Vacuum”, Belleten (Turk Tarih Kurumu), 15:
151–74. (Scholar)
- Walzer, Richard (ed. and trans.), 1985, Al-Faradi on the Perfect State, with introduction and commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Zimmerman, F.W., 1981, Al-Farabi’s Commentary and Short
Treatise on Aristotle’s “De interpretatione”
(translation, introduction & notes), London: British Academy. (Scholar)
Works by other authors
- [Aristotle] Akasoy, A.A. & A. Fidora (eds.), 2005, The
Arabic Version of the “Nicomachean Ethics”, with an
English translation by D.M. Dunlop, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- [al-Kindī] Adamson, Peter and Peter E. Pormann (ed.), 2012,
The Philosophical Works of al-Kindi (Studies in Islamic
Philosophy), Karachi: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Secondary Literature
- Abed, Shukri B., 1991, Aristotelian Logic and the Arabic Language in Alfārābī, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
- Adamson, Peter, 2006, “The Arabic Sea Battle: al-Fārābī on the Problem of future Contingents”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 88: 163–88. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, “Plotinus Arabus and Proclus
Arabus in the Harmony of the Two Philosophers Attributed to
al-Fārābī,” in Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes
(Volume II: Translations and Acculturations), Dragos Calma (ed.),
Leiden: Brill, pp. 182–97. (Scholar)
- Black, Deborah L., 1990, Logic and Aristotle’s
“Rhetoric” and “Poetics” in Medieval Arabic
Philosophy, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Butterworth, Charles E., 2011, “Alfarabi’s Goal:
Political Philosophy, Not Political Theology”, in Islam, the
State, and Political Authority: Medieval Issues and Modern
Concerns, Asma Afsaruddin (ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave McMillan
US, pp. 53–74. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “How to Read Alafarabi”,
in More Modoque: Festschrift for Miklós Maróth,
edited by P. Fodor et alii, Budapest: Research Centre for the
Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, pp. 33–41. (Scholar)
- Chatti, Saloua, 2019, Arabic Logic from al-Fārābī to Averroes: A Study of the Early Arabic Categorical, Modal and Hypothetical Syllogistics, Basel: Birkhhauser. (Scholar)
- Cherni, Amor, 2015, La cité et ses opinions: Politique et métaphysique chez Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī, Paris: Albouraq. (Scholar)
- Daiber, Hans, 1983, “Fārābīs Abhandlung
über das Vakuum: Quellen und Stellung in der islamischen
Wissenschaftsgeschichte”, Der Islam, 60(1):
37–47. (Scholar)
- Druart, Thérèse-Anne, 2007, “Al-Fārābī, the categories, metaphysics, and The Book of Letters”, Medioevo, 32: 15–37. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “Al-Fārābī: An Arabic Account of the Origin of Language and of Philosophical Vocabulary”, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 84: 1–17. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “Al-Farabi on Intersubjectivity
in This Life and Thereafter,” in Promisa nec aspera
currans, Georgio Rahal & Heinz-Otto Luthe (eds.), Toulouse:
Les Presses Universitaires, pp. 341–54. (Scholar)
- –––, 2020, “What Does Music Have to Do
with Language, Logic, and Rulership? Al-Farabi’s Answer,”
in The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic: Perspectives in
Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought, Nadja Germann
& Steven Harvey (eds.), Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 193–210. (Scholar)
- El-Fekkak, Badr, 2017, “Cosmic, Corporeal and Civil
Regencies: al-Fārābī’s anti-Galenic Defence of Hierarchical
Cardiocentrism,” in Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative
Period of Islam, Peter Adamson & Peter E. Pormann (eds.), London:
The Warburg Institute, pp. 255–68. (Scholar)
- Freudenthal, Gad, 1988, “La philosophie de la
géométrie d’al-Fārābī. Son
commentaire sur le début du Ier et le début du Ve livre
des Éléments d’Euclide”,
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 11:
104–219. (Scholar)
- Galston, Miriam, 2019, “The Origin of the Primary
Principles: The Role of Nature and Experience,” in The
Pilgrimage of Philosophy, Rene M. Paddags, Waseem El-Rayes &
Gregory A. McGrayer (eds.), South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s
Press, pp. 114–35. (Scholar)
- Genequand, Charles, 2012, “Théologie et philosophie.
La providence chez al-Fārābī et
l’authenticité de l’Harmonie des opinions des
deux sages”, Mélanges de
l’Université Saint-Joseph, 64: 195–211. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Le Platon
d’al-Fārābī”, in Lire les dialogues,
mais lesquels et dans quel ordre? Définitions du corpus et
interprétations de Platon, A. Balansard & I. Koch
(eds.), Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, pp. 105–15. (Scholar)
- Germann, Nadja, 2015–16,
“Imitation–Ambiguity–Discourse: Some Remarks on
al–Farabi’s Philosophy of Language,” Melanges de
l’Universite Saint–Joseph, 66: 135–66. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, “Logic as the Path to Happiness: Al-Farabi and the Divisions of the Sciences”, Quaestio, 15: 15–30. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “The Power of Words:
al-Fārābī’s Philosophy of Language”, Ishraq, 10:
193–211. (Scholar)
- Gutas, Dimitri, 2012 “Platon: Tradition arabe”, in
Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. V-b, Richard
Goulet (ed.), Paris: CNRS, pp. 854–63. (Scholar)
- Jabbour, Jawdath, 2018, “La structure du Contre Galien de
Farabi et son epitre sur la medicine,” Documenti e
Studi, 29: 89–123. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, De la matière à
l’intellect: L’āme et la substance de l’homme
dans l’oeuvre d’al-Fārābi, Paris:
Vrin. (Scholar)
- Janos, Damien, 2012, Method, Structure, and Development in
al-Fārābī’s Cosmology, Leiden:
Brill. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “Al-Farabi’s (d. 950) On
the One and Oneness: Some Preliminary Remarks on Its Structure,
Contents, and Theological Implications,” in The Oxford
Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, Khaled El-Rouayheb & Sabine
Schmidtke (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.
101–28. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “The Role of Developmentalism
in the Study of Arabic Philosophy: Overview and Some Methodological
Insights,” in La Philosophie arabe a l’etude. Sens,
limites et defis d’une discipline modern (Studying
Arabic Philosophy: Meaning, Limits, and Challenges of a Modern
Discipline), Jean-Baptiste Brenet & Olga Lizzini (eds.),
Paris: Vrin, pp. 113–78. (Scholar)
- Karimullah, Kamran, 2014, “Alfarabi on Conditionals”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 24(2): 211–67. (Scholar)
- Kleven, Terrence F., 2013, “Alfarabi’s Commentary on
Porphyry’s Isagoge (Kitab Isaguji),” Schede
Medievali, 51: 41–52. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “Alfarabi’s Account of
Poetry as a Logical Art in A Treatise on the Cannons of the Art of
Poetry,” in The Pilgrimage of Philosophy, Rene M.
Paddags, Waseem El-Rayes & Gregory A. McGrayer (eds.), South Bend,
IN: St. Augustine’s Press, pp. 136–52. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, “Al-Farabi’s Book of
Resolution (Kitab al-Tahlil)”, in Tolerance and
Concepts of Otherness, Michael William Dunne & Susan
Gottlober (eds.), Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 129–42. (Scholar)
- Lameer, Joep, 1994, Al-Fārābī & Aristotelian Syllogistics: Greek Theory & Islamic Practice, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Laywine, Alison, 2023, “Al-Farabi’s Conception of
Music Theory as the Universal Science of Melody”,
Oriens, 51 (1–2): 104–26. (Scholar)
- Lettinck, Paul, 1994, Aristotle’s Physics and its
Reception in the Arabic World, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Madian, Azza Abd al-Hamid, 1992, Language-music relationships
in al-Fārābī’s “Grand Book of
Music”, Ph.D. dissertation for Cornell University. (Scholar)
- Mattila, Janne, 2017, “The Ethical Progression of the Philosopher in al-Razi and al-Fārābī,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 27(1): 115–37. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, The Eudaimonist Ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Menn, Stephen, 2008, “Al-Fārābī’s
Kitāb al-Hurūf and his analysis of the Senses of
Being”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 18(1):
59–97. (Scholar)
- Orwin, Alexander, 2017, Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
- Parens, Joshua, 1995, Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi’s “Summary of Plato’s ‘Laws’”, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
- Proceedings: Global Al-Farabi Forum, December 21-22,
2020, 2021, S. Khurshid Hasanain with Ikram Abbasi & Muhammad
Jamil (eds.), Islamabad: Comstech.
[Proceedings available online in Arabic from the publisher]
- Rashed, Marwan, 2009, “On the Authorship of the Treatise
On the Harmonization of the Opinions of the Two Sages
Attributed to al-Fārābī”, Arabic Sciences
& Philosophy, 19(1): 43–82. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “Al-Farabi et le parachevement
de l’Ethique a Nicomaque,” in Ethike Theoria, F.
Masi, St. Maso & C. Viano (eds.), Rome: Edizioni di storia e
letteratura, pp. 301–38. (Scholar)
- Reisman, David C., 2004, “Plato’s Republic in
Arabic: A Newly Discovered Passage”, Arabic Sciences and
Philosophy, 14(2): 263–300. (Scholar)
- Rudolph, Ulrich, 2017, “Abū Naṣr
al-Fārābī”, in Philosophy in the Islamic
World (Volume 1: 8th-–10th Centuries), Ulrich
Rudolph, Rotraud Hansberger & Peter Adamson (eds.), Leiden: Brill,
pp. 526–654. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2022, Abū Naṣr al-Fārābi: Die Prinzipien der Ansichten der Bewohner der vortrefflichen Stadt, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
- Shehadi, Fadlou, 1995, Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Taylor, Richard C., 2006, “Abstraction in al-Fārābī”, Proceedings of the American Catholic Association, 80: 151–68 (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “The Agent Intellect as
”Form for Us“ and Averroes’s Critique of
al-Fārābī”, in Universal Representation
and the Ontology of Individuation, Gyula Klima & Alexander W.
Hall (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing , pp.
25–44. (Scholar)
- Strobino, Riccardo, 2019, “Varieties of Demonstration in Alfarabi,” History & Philosophy of Logic, 40(1): 22–41. (Scholar)
- Thomann, Johannes, 2010–11, “Ein
al-Fārābī zugeschriebener Kommentar zum Almagest
(Ms. Tehran Maglis 6531)”, Zeitschrift für Geschichte
der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften, 19: 35–76. (Scholar)
- Vallat, Philippe, 2004: Farabi et l’École
d’Alexandrie. Des prémisses de la connaissance à
la philosophie politique, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019a, “L’intellect selon
Farabi. La transformation du connaitre en etre,” in Noetique
et theorie de la connaissance dans la philosophie arabe du IXe au XIIe
siècle, Meryem Sebti & Daniel De Smet (eds.), Paris:
Vrin, pp. 211–41.
- –––, 2019b, “Le Livre del’Un et de
l’Unite de Farabi: l’invention persane de la doctrine des
transcendantaux,” in Commenter au Moyen Age, Pascale
Bermon & Isabelle Moulin, Paris: Vrin, pp. 211–41. (Scholar)
- –––, 2019c, “L’esoterisme de Farabi
explique par lui-meme: nature et fonctions,” in La
philosophie arabe a l’etude, J.-B. Brent & O. Lizzini
(eds.), Paris: Vrin, pp. 545–611.
- –––, 2020, “Notes prèliminaires
à la traduction du Contre Galien de Farabi”,
in Contre Galien, Antoine Pietrobelli (ed.), Paris: Honore
Champion, pp. 99–114. (Scholar)
- Watt, John, 2008, “Al-Farabi and the History of the Syriac
Organon”, in Malphono w-Rabo d-Malphone (Gorgias
Eastern Christian Studies), George Anton Kiraz (ed.), Piscataway, NJ:
Gorgias Press, pp. 751–78. Reprinted separately in 2009,
(Analecta Gorgiana 129), Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. (Scholar)
- Woerther, Frederique, 2018, “Al-Farabi commentateur
d’Aristote dans les Didascalia in Rethoricam Aristotelis ex
glosa Alpharabii,” in Commenting on Aristotle’s
Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Present, F. Woerther (ed.),
Leiden: Brill, pp. 41–63. (Scholar)
- Zonta, Mauro, 2006, “Al-Fārābī’s
Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories in
Hebrew and Arabic. A Critical Edition and English Translation of the
Newly-found Fragments”, in Studies in Arabic and Islamic
Culture, II, B. Abrahamov (ed.), Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University
Press , pp. 185–254. (Scholar)