Al Farabi (872-950) was a scholar of the Golden age of Islam. He was a philosopher and wrote extensively. He was born one year after the death of Al-Kindi in 873 who was also a philosophy[her and a polymath. Here is a link to a lecture from a visiting prophesier from Germany on " Al-Farabi & the Emergence of Philosophy of Language & Islamic Thought" delivered in October 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9neJXAqt8Tw&t=118s
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