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Abu Nasr al-Faràbi 872-950 -

Persian Islamic neoplatonist who employed Aristotelian logic in support of his arguments for the existence of god and used Plato's Republic as the model for his own description of civil society in Principles of Citizens of the Virtuous City.

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Also see A. Zahoor, 

Columbia Encyclopedia

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Alfarabi: 'Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle', tr. by Muhin Mahdi, Charles E. Butterworth, and Thomas L. Pangle (Cornell, 2001) 

Ian Richard Netton, Al-Farabi and His School (Curzon, 2000).

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