Al-Fārābī — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica biography of al-Fārābī; gives his birth about 878 in Turkistan, the move to Baghdad where most of his works were written, the 942 residence at Sayf al-Dawlah's court in Aleppo until his death about 950.

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