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Al-Fārābī’s virtuous city and Plato’s philosopher-king: the same answer for different reasons?
I keep a bookshop off Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the city where al-Fārābī did much of his work a thousand years ago. On bad days I find it hopeful that someone here once believed a city could be organised around wisdom. Al-Fārābī's…
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When rhetoric and poetry were counted as logic: the Arabic Organon and al-Jāḥiẓ on eloquence
I keep a secondhand bookshop off Mutanabbi Street. People come in for poetry far more often than for logic, and they are surprised when I tell them that for centuries the two were shelved together. In the Arabic tradition, following late-antique practice,…
Started by Zainab Kadhim5 replies215 views