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en-wikipedia-org-6074		Al-Farabi - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10030	1320	68	Abu Nasr Al-Farabi (/ˌælfəˈrɑːbi/; Persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابی‎ Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al Fārābī;[2] known in the West as Alpharabius;[7] c. Medieval Arab historian Ibn Abī Uṣaibiʿa (died in 1270)—al-Farabi's oldest biographer—mentions in his ʿUyūn that al-Farabi's father was of Persian descent.[2][18] Al-Shahrazūrī who lived around 1288 A.D. and has written an early biography also states that Farabi hailed from a Persian family.[19][20] According to Majid Fakhry, an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Farabi's father "was an army captain of Persian extraction."[21] Dimitri Gutas notes that Farabi's works contain references and glosses in Persian, Sogdian, and even Greek, but not Turkish.[2][22] Sogdian has also been suggested as his native language[23] and the language of the inhabitants of Fārāb.[24] Muhammad Javad Mashkoor argues for an Iranian-speaking Central Asian origin.[25] A Persian origin has been stated by many other sources as well.[26]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6074.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6074.txt