Iran will cooperate in renovating Farabi`s tomb

Damascus, Dec 23, IRNA - Iran will cooperate with Syria to renovate the tomb of well-known
Iranian polymath Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Farabi from
third-fourth century AH, located in Damascus.

It was announced during the visit of Minister of Culture and the
Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hossein Saffar-Harandi to Syria.

Farabi is mostly known for his comments on Aristotle's, a Greek philosopher.

Saffar Harandi said that Iran has nurtured many scholars, tombs of
several of whom are located outside the country.

"We take pride in such luminaries and they belong to humanity," he said.

Farabi was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and
philosophers of Persia and the Islamic world in his time.

He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.


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