AlFarabi and His School Author:Ian Richard Netton Al-Farabi and His School examines one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in the development of medieval Islam: the period which ran from the late ninth century to the early eleventh century AD. Ian Richard Netton demonstrates that the great Islamic philosopher al-Farabi (870-950), called "the Second Master" after Aristotle, produced... more » a recognizable school of thought that was influenced by the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus. Netton surveys the five major thinkers of the period and focuses particularly on their concerns with the ethical dimensions of knowledge. The book is unique in its examination of intellectual continuity maintained in an age of flux.« less