“s work, and one of his most notable works is Ara Ahl al-Madina al-Fadila. 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. He incorporated the Platonic view to create a theoretical model of an ideal state ruled by an abstract”
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