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Recensione a: Leo Strauss, Al-Fārābī. La filosofia politica nell'Islam medievale, a cura di Carlo Altini, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2019, pp. 127.

Al-Fārābī and Avicenna are the two most influential authors of the classical period of Arabic philosophy, yet their ethical thought has been largely overlooked by scholars. In this book, Janne Mattila provides the first comprehensive account of the ethics of these important philosophers. The book argues that even if neither of them wrote a major ethical work, their ethical writings form a coherent ethical system, especially when understood in the context of philosophical psychology, cosmology, and metaphysics. The resulting ethical theory is, moreover, not derivative of their classical predecessors in any simple way. The book will appeal to those with interest in Arabic/Islamic philosophy, Islamic intellectual history, classical philosophy, and the history of moral philosophy.

Al-Fārābī's writing on the Noble State from 942-43 had a formative influence on the history of philosophy in the Islamic world and can serve as a key to its knowledge. The philosophical conclusion is analyzed and explained in this volume by internationally renowned experts. In addition, there are chapters on life and work, philosophical background and history of impact.

International audience ; This article aims at presenting for the first time a central concept inal-Fa¯ra¯bı¯'s work that constitutes a keystone in understanding his thought, be it in itslogical or political aspects. This concept is that of naqla, which, in terms of transmissionand translation, its generic transcription can be rendered as 'transfer'. The naqlais a notion that pertains to rupture in linguistic, logical or temporal continuities, andhints at confusing contiguities in the use of words, in demonstrations and in historicalprocesses. This notion of naqla is at the centre of the preoccupations of al-Fa¯ra¯bı¯ in hisvarious domains of thinking. First of all, in terms of his linguistic reflection thatconsists of thinking about the transfer (naqla) of a given word in between its notionsof first and second imposition. Then, in logic, the integration of the modes of reasoningof the theologians in Aristotelian syllogism, which passes by way of a mechanism oflogical transference in the case of induction and the shift in paradigm. Finally, theFa¯ra¯bian conception of intellectual history, as a transmission of knowledge, cannot begrasped in its fullest scope except through an understanding, not only of the commonnotion of naqla, but rather in terms of its particular Fa¯ra¯bian sense; namely as aconcept that entirely renews the question of transmission and translation. ; La bêtise des penseurs arabes. D'une forme de déraison à l'époque classique arabe. DE VAULX D'ARCY Guillaume Résumé. Cela commence avec l'étude des insultes. Si au tout début du Xe siècle, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī accuse Abū Bakr d'être un mécréant, deux siècles plus tard, Ghazālī parlera de la bêtise des philosophes. Quelque chose s'est passé dans le cours du Xe siècle. C'est pour leur bêtise que chaque savant arabe met au pilori l'ensemble de ses prédécesseurs et contemporains. Mais cette bêtise qui caractériserait les penseurs ne prend sens que si l'on comprend que ces penseurs ont élaboré un concept précis et puissant de bêtise. C'est par lui que se ...

This paper is a summary of al-Fārābī's political theory. His book Ara' Ahl al-Madina al-Fadhila edited by Nader and translated and also edited by Walzer is the only book this paper focuses on. However, other books or sources are quoted as far as is necessary.