Who covered the most disciplines, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī or Al-Farabi?
Al-Farabi Al-Farabi ( ; Persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابي‎ ‎ "Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Al Fārābī ";, known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 in Fārāb – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned 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.
A. I. Sabra Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924-2013) was a professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam. He died December 18, 2013. Sabra provided English translation and commentary for Books I-III of Ibn al-Haytham's seven book "Kitab al-Manazir" ("Book of Optics"), written in Arabic in the 11th century.