"A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts."
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H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)
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Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Farabi (Persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابي) (b. 872 - between 14 December 950 and 12 January 951), also known as Alpharabius, was a renowned Born in Farab Khorasan of Ancient Iran. philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.
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