Book Opinions of the People of the Virtuous City Dar Afaaq

Author's name: Abu Nasr Al-Farabi Publisher: Afaq for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Philosophy and Thought Brief about the book: Can a whole society be based on the foundations of virtue, reason, and wisdom? This is what Al-Farabi tried to answer in one of his greatest works, where he presented his philosophical view of the concept of the virtuous city, and its hierarchy rooted deeply in the Muslim philosophers' conception of existence. A valuable philosophical and literary impact, from the highlights of Islamic philosophy, authored by the philosopher Abu Nasr Al-Farabi, in which he presents a summary of his philosophical and cognitive vision of the perfect society, from an Islamic Arab perspective, including principles upon which his philosophy was built, starting from the universe and its existences, their ranks and states, their relation to the First Being and to each other, to society and its members, their organization from leaders to the populace, and the types of societies—complete and incomplete, good and corrupt, and humans' need for cooperation and integration among themselves to achieve the sought happiness. In his important philosophical book, Al-Farabi makes the first comprehensive Arab and Islamic contribution to the concept of the virtuous city, joining a long chain of dreams and imaginations of philosophers and writers about a utopian society that fulfills humans' hope for a life of complete happiness. The book establishes a comprehensive philosophical framework linking the higher existence, the human, knowledge, and the ultimate purpose of life. We present it to the Arab reader, after previously introducing his small but highly beneficial work "The Terms Used in Logic."