Tarbiat Modares University The International Journal of Humanities 2538-2640 21 1 2014 01 01 Three Different Readings of al-Farabi’s Political Philosophy سه خواندنیها مختلف فلسفه سیاسی فارابی 117 142 17704 EN Morteza Bahrani Assistant Prof, Iranian Institute for Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS) Journal Article Addition to historical analyses, three different types of reading of the ideas of al-Farabi have been offered: First, the connection between his ideas and the Greek thought; second, the connection between his ideas and theology, and the relationship that can be established between philosophy and religiousness; and third, the explication of al-Farabi’s ideas on the basis of the crisis (-es) he faced. In the present article the relationship between al-Farabi’s philosophy and Greece, Islam and the social crisis of the time are elaborated on. https://eijh.modares.ac.ir/article_17704_5f9449ba01fb3bf921996d83dd46e9de.pdf