Thursday, February 18, 2010
Novella on Iranian philosopher published in Armenia
Tehran Times Culture Desk
TEHRAN — A novella on Iranian philosopher Abu Nasr Farabi or
Avennasar has recently been published in Armenia, the Islamic Culture
and Relations Organization announced on Wednesday.
The book entitled `Farabi’ was introduced in Yerevan last week during
a ceremony attended by its translator Emma Begijanian, Iranian
ambassador to Armenia and a number of cultural figures from the two
countries.
The Persian version of book was authored in 2004 in Iran by Abbas
Jahangiri, who didn’t attend the ceremony.
`Farabi’ is to be published in Kazakhstan in the near future.
Jahangirian’s Armenian version of `Hamun and the Sea’ was published in
Armenia in 2007. The book was translated by Andranik Khechumian.
A Muslim philosopher and a prominent musician, Farabi (c. 878-950) was
regarded in the Arab world as the greatest philosophical authority
after Aristotle.
Farabi’s philosophical thinking was nourished in the heritage of the
Arabic Aristotelian teachings of 10th-century Baghdad, the
Encyclopedia Britannica says.
His great service to Islam was to take the Greek heritage, as it had
become known to the Arabs, and show how it could be used to answer
questions with which Muslims were struggling.
Photo: The Persian version of `Farabi’
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