Aim and End of Society in Farabi’s Political Philosophy

Being engaged in philosophy of politics, monarchy traditions and desirable search of community have been some of the intellectual concerns of Muslim philosophers. Important parts of the works produced by the Muslims are allocated to reflect the political and philosophical ideas about society. Farabi is the first philosopher who introduced independent and regular discussions on the desired political community and its foundations in the Muslim world; he also published various works about it. Farabi’s ideal society enjoys meaningful words about politics, society, and the 'virtuous city'. Throughout the history of philosophy in the Islamic world, perhaps no one has paid more attention as much as him to the thinking about politics. Generally, the central issue on his political philosophy seems to be this issue that what kind of society is defined as the ideal society, and which policies are applied in? Also, what is the desirable political goal of such a society? The purpose of this study is to examine the political structure of Farabi’s ideal society, also to study the purpose of his ideal society.