| Philosophy and logic in particular | Ezzaher 2008: 347—91 translated the short commentary on the Rhetoric |
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| Some texts still need to be better edited | It is still untranslated but Damien Janos 2017 explained its structure and contents and Philippe Vallat 2019b studied it |
It highlights their breadth and sophistication, even if we still have trouble piecing together all the parts.
7| Majid Fakhry, Al-Farabi, Founder of Islamic Neoplatonism: His Life, Works, and Influence, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002 , ISBN 1-85168-302-X• He also sees the necessity to make of the philosopher king a philosopher prophet ruler | He may have gone to Egypt but died in Damascus in December 950 CE or January 951 CE AH 339 |
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| Many passages of The Book of Letters are of great metaphysical import as Stephen Menn 2008 showed | In The Great Book of Music he certainly indicates that music derives some of its principles from mathematics but he also insists, as we said above, on the importance of performance for determining its empirical principles |
The hierarchical structure of the ideal state mirrors the hierarchical emanationist structure presented in the first part.
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