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Al-Farabi was born in the year _______ A.D.

1. 870
2. 871
3. 872
4. 873

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Al-Farabi died in year _______ A.D.

1. 950
2. 951
3. 952
4. 953

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Al-Farabi is known as:

1. The Philosopher
2. The second teacher
3. The First Arab Philosopher
4. The father of Islamic political thought

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The name of the book which Al-Farabi wrote is:

1. Ara Madinatul Fazila
2. Al-Istabdad
3. Elements of Geometry
4. Theory of Revolution

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Al-Farabi did his best to reconcile:

1. Greek thought and Islamic Shariat
2. Platos Political theory and Guided caliphate
3. Human intellect and revelation
4. Greek science and Eastern Mysticism

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Al-Farabi wrote:

1. Commentaries on the work of Plato and Aristotle
2. Commentaries on the work of Polybius
3. On the Philosopher king
4. The science of politics

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Al-Farabi is considered an authority on:

1. Greek Philosophers
2. Roman Philosophers
3. English Philosophers
4. Muslim Philosophers

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A summary of Platos Law was written by:

1. Al-Farabi
2. Al-Mawardi
3. Aristotle
4. None of these

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Which Muslim thinkers commentaries popularized works of Aristotle in the West and saved Greek thought from oblivion?

1. Al-Farabi
2. Al-Mawardi
3. Nizam-ul-Mulk Toosi
4. Al-Ghazali

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Al-Farabi by birth was:

1. Turk
2. Egyptian
3. Arab
4. Iranian

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Which one is not written by Farabi?

1. A srmmary of Platos laws
2. Muqaddamah
3. Siyasatul Madaniyah
4. Ara-Madinatul-Fadilah

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Al-Farabi studied in Baghdad under the Christian scholar named:

1. Abu Bish Matta
2. Abu Fazal
3. Abu Amir
4. Amir Saif Ullah

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Al-Farabi learnt the basics of Political science from another Christian Savant:

1. Jilad al-Harran
2. Jilad al-Yunus
3. Matta bin Junus
4. Bashar bin Abraham

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He himself (Al-Farabi) is called the second teacher the first teacher being.

1. Aristotle
2. Platos Political theory and Guided caliphate
3. Socrates
4. None of these

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Farabi was a master of:

1. Arabic Language and Literature
2. Persian Language and Literature
3. English Language and Literature
4. Spanish Language and Literature

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AL Farabi was born at the village:

1. Warij
2. Syria
3. Tarbhan
4. Baghdad

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Who wrote Siyasat al Madina?

1. Mawardi
2. Farabi
3. Ghazzali
4. Iqbal

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Which is the best form of stte according to Farabi?

1. Madinat-ul-Fazla
2. Madinatual Jahillia
3. Madina-tul-Siyasa
4. Madina-tul-Tughlab

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In which kind of state the objective of the citizens is to acquire the needs of life according to Farabi.

1. Ideal state
2. State of necessity
3. Democracy
4. Vicious state

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According to Farabi the following kind of state is useless:

1. Democratic
2. Vicious state
3. Ideal state
4. Vile state

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According to Farabi this form of state is the symbol of peace and property:

1. Vile state
2. Vicious state
3. Ideal state
4. State of necessity

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The objective of this form of state is to acquire maximum money:

1. Vile state
2. Ideal state
3. Vicious state
4. Erring state

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Al Farabi was very much impressed by:

1. Machiavelli
2. Aristotle
3. Mawardi
4. Iqbal

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