What, according to Al-Farabı, is a religion? How do religions relate to philosophies?
What, according to Al-Farabı, is a ‘virtuous religion’? How, on his view, do ‘virtuous religions’ differ from religions that are ‘ignorant’, ‘errant’, and ‘deceptive’? Why does Al-Farabı deny that there can only be one ‘virtuous religion’?
Al-Farabı maintains that the best kind of philosophy would exclusively employ demonstrative methods of instruction. What political and epistemological significance does Farabı attach to religions’ use of poetical and rhetorical methods of instruction?