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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Al-farabi"”.
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Translating Justice : between Al-Farabi and Derrida
… little attention has been given to the political aspects of that transformation. By exploring this aspect, this thesis argues that translation is a transformation within sovereignty from a divine to a more secular model that is guided by justice. By offering a comparative reading of Derrida’s …
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Il tema della città felice in Platone e al-Farabi, una lettura comparata di filosofia politica.
Il presente lavoro di ricerca analizza la filosofia politica di Platone e al-Farabi, filosofo del medioevo islamico, mediante il ricorso ad una metodologia di tipo comparativo. La riflessione politica farabiana accoglie dichiaratamente alcuni passaggi fondamentali del platonismo, insieme a diverse …
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The Impact of Medieval Debates on the Nature of the Soul on Modern Discussions of Abortion and Euthanasia in Islam
… examines the relationship between the national laws on abortion and euthanasia in the Muslim world, as represented by Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and Islamic philosophy. The underlying assumption behind this examination is that there will be clearly visible links between the debates in …
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067
… thrived even in the most tumultuous of political times. This dissertation subverts existing historical models of urbanism, which were developed for medieval Europe, by excavating a theorization of the city from the political writings of the philosopher al-Farabi (d. 950), who argues that cities …
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RECONCILING ISLAM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE VIRTUOUS CITY: REREADING AL-FARABI'S AL-MADINAH AL-FADILAH WITHIN 10TH-CENTURY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
In his tenth-century work, al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah, the Muslim philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī posits a solution to the internecine hostilities between Muslim intellectual communities which occurred as a result of conflicting positions on the relationship between revelation and reason, religion and …
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On Prophecy and Revelation in the Virtuous City: Towards Establishing a Viable Framework for Re-Contextualizing al-Fārābī
Though relatively unknown to non-specialists, Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī is a fundamental member of the community of Muslims who founded Islamic Philosophy. In his tenth-century work, On the Perfect State, al-Fārābī tackles questions of eminent importance to society of Muslims still deciding who they were. …
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Basic functional and geometric inequalities for the fractional order operators on homogenous Lie groups
In this PhD dissertation, we study functional and geometric inequalities on homo- geneous Lie groups. As for direct inequalities we obtain fractional Hardy, Sobolev, Hardy-Sobolev, Gagliardo-Nirenberg, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg, logarithmic inequal- ities, Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev and Stein-Weiss …