Al-Farabi
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| - | The terms "[[comedy]]" and "[[satire]]" became synonymous after Aristotle's ''[[Poetics]]'' was translated into [[Arabic language|Arabic]] in the [[Islamic Golden Age|medieval Islamic world]], where it was elaborated upon by [[Arabic literature|Arabic writers]] and [[Early Islamic philosophy|Islamic philosophers]] such as Abu Bischr, his pupil [[Al-Farabi]], [[Avicenna]], and [[Averroes]]. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from [[Greek drama]]tic representation, and instead identified it with [[Arabic poetry|Arabic poetic]] themes and forms, such as ''hija'' (satirical poetry). They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension" and made no reference to light and cheerful events or troublous beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the [[Latin translations of the 12th century]], the term "comedy" thus gained a new semantic meaning in [[Medieval literature]]. | ||
| + | As a philosopher, Al-Farabi was a founder of his own school of [[early Islamic philosophy]] known as "Farabism" or "Alfarabism", though it was later overshadowed by [[Avicennism]]. Al-Farabi's school of philosophy "breaks with the philosophy of [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] [... and ...] moves from [[Islamic metaphysics|metaphysics]] to [[Scientific method|methodology]], a move that anticipates [[modernity]]", and "at the level of philosophy, Alfarabi unites theory and practice [... and] in the sphere of the [[Politics|political]] he liberates practice from theory". His [[Neoplatonism|Neoplatonic]] theology is also more than just metaphysics as rhetoric. In his attempt to think through the nature of a [[Primum movens|First Cause]], Alfarabi discovers the limits of human [[knowledge]]".--Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2005-2007; accessed March 1, 2007. | ||
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As a philosopher, Al-Farabi was a founder of his own school of early Islamic philosophy known as "Farabism" or "Alfarabism", though it was later overshadowed by Avicennism. Al-Farabi's school of philosophy "breaks with the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle [... and ...] moves from metaphysics to methodology, a move that anticipates modernity", and "at the level of philosophy, Alfarabi unites theory and practice [... and] in the sphere of the political he liberates practice from theory". His Neoplatonic theology is also more than just metaphysics as rhetoric. In his attempt to think through the nature of a First Cause, Alfarabi discovers the limits of human knowledge".--Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition 2005-2007; accessed March 1, 2007.
