The Al-Farabi Library hosted the International Farabi Forum “Al-Farabi and Spiritual Traditions of the Turkic Peoples”, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science.
The outstanding thinker of the East Abu Nasr al-Farabi was born (870) in the city of Farab, now called Otrar, located at the confluence of the Arys River with the Syr Darya (which corresponds to the Otrar region of the South Kazakhstan region of modern Kazakhstan). He comes from the privileged strata of the Turks, as evidenced by the word “tarkhan” in his full name: Abu-Nasyr Muhammad Ibn-Muhammad Ibn-Tarkhan ibn-Uzlag al-Farabi at-Turki. In the IX-X centuries. the city of Otrar was a major political, cultural and trade center and was a key point of the caravan routes of the great Silk Road, which connected medieval Europe and Asia.Abu Nasr received the basis of scientific knowledge in Otrar, where he lived until the age of 20, where he had the opportunity to get acquainted with the philosophical and scientific works of the richest library at that time, the second in the world in terms of the number of books and manuscripts (after the famous Alexandria book depository). Then he studied and worked in Bukhara, Samarkand, for many years he lived in Baghdad, which is the cultural and political center of the Arab Caliphate. He spent the last years of his life in Cairo, Aleppo and Damascus and enjoyed great respect. In December 950, at the age of 80, al-Farabi died in Damascus.
In connection with this event, the Library. Al-Farabi organized a book exhibition.
Datа: 4 April 2022
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