Download or read book Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy written by Muhsin Mahdi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahdi, whose research brought to light writings of Alfarabi previously known only through medieval bibliographical references, presents this great thinker as his contemporaries and followers would have seen him: as a philosopher who sought to lay the foundations for a new understanding of revealed religion and its relation to the tradition of political philosophy.".