من هو صاحب كتاب اراء اهل المدينة الفاضلة؟
Al-Farabi also wrote a commentary on Aristotle's work, and one of his most notable works is "Al-Madina al-Fadila" () where he theorized an ideal state as in Plato's "The Republic". Al-Farabi argued that religion rendered truth through symbols and persuasion, and, like Plato, saw it as the duty of the philosopher to provide guidance to the state. Al-Farabi incorporated the Platonic view, drawing a parallel from within the Islamic context, in that he regarded the ideal state to be ruled by the prophet-imam, instead of the philosopher-king envisaged by Plato. Al-Farabi argued that the ideal state was the city-state of Medina when it was governed by the prophet Muhammad as its head of state, as he was in direct communion with Allah whose law was revealed to him.
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