Who Was Alive

Farabi

10th century Persian philosopher and jurist

Born c. AD 870 · died AD 951

Who was alive at the same time as Farabi?

  1. Alfred the Great
  2. Abu Bakr al-Razi
  3. Farabi
  4. Otto I the Great
  5. Ferdowsi
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Farabi died, Ferdowsi was 10 or 11 and Otto I the Great was 38 or 39.

Born during Farabi’s lifetime: Ferdowsi and Otto I the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: Ibn al-Haytham was born 12 years after Farabi died.

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