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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: 950, 950s births, 950s books, 950s deaths, 950s establishments, 951, 952, 953, 954, 955, 956, 957, 958, 959, Battle of Lechfeld, Al-Farabi, List of state leaders in 959, List of state leaders in 958, List of state leaders in 954, List of state leaders in 951, List of state leaders in 950, List of state leaders in 957, List of state leaders in 953, List of state leaders in 952, List of state leaders in 956, List of state leaders in 955, De Administrando Imperio, Burchard of Worms, Aldhun, Sant Benet de Bages, Battle of Recknitz, Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia, William I of Provence, Odo I, Count of Blois, Euthymius of Athos, Docibilis II of Gaeta, Ashot III, Bernard I, Duke of Saxony, Battle of Rastarkalv, Egbert, 950s in poetry, AElfric, Theodred, AEthelgar, Brihthelm, Battle of Stainmore, Dedo I von Wettin, Adele of Meaux, Emma of Blois. Excerpt: (Arabic:; for other recorded variants of his name see below) known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 - between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951), was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist. The existing variations in the basic accounts of al-Farabi's origins and pedigree indicate that they were not recorded during his lifetime or soon thereafter by anyone with concrete information, but were based on hearsay or guesses (as is the case with other contemporaries of al-Farabi). The sources for his life are scant which makes the reconstruction of his biography beyond a mere outline nearly impossible. The earliest and more reliable sources, i. e., those composed before the 6th/12th century, that are extant today are so few as to indicate that no one among F r b 's successors and their followers, or even unrelated scholars, unde.
