Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: 870 births, 871 births, 872 births, 873 births, 874 births, 875 births, 876 births, 877 births, 878 births, 879 births, Henry the Fowler, Charles the Simple, AEthelflaed, Romanos I Lekapenos, Al-Farabi, Wang Rong, Edward the Elder, Taejo of Goryeo, Ebalus, Duke of Aquitaine, John of Rila, Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, Petar Gojnikovi, Samonas, Emperor Taizu of Liao, Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria, Alexander, Empress Liu, Zwentibold, Ordono II of Leon, Fruela II of Leon, Empress Dowager Yingtian, Odo of Cluny, Ki no Tsurayuki, Abu Yazid, Ota, William I, Duke of Aquitaine, Garcia I of Leon, Lady Ise, Meng Zhixiang, Bardas Phokas the Elder, Adalbert II, Margrave of Tuscany, Elahi Ardabili, Pietro II Candiano, Fulk I, Count of Anjou, Liu Yin, AEthelfrith of Mercia, AElfthryth, Countess of Flanders, Fujiwara no Kanesuke, Fujiwara no Tokihira, Somananda, Sridhara, Fujiwara no Sadakata. Excerpt: (Arabic:; for other recorded variants of his name see below) known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 - between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951), was a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist. The existing variations in the basic accounts of al-Farabi's origins and pedigree indicate that they were not recorded during his lifetime or soon thereafter by anyone with concrete information, but were based on hearsay or guesses (as is the case with other contemporaries of al-Farabi). The sources for his life are scant which makes the reconstruction of his biography beyond a mere outline nearly impossible. The earliest and more reliable sources, i. e., those composed before the 6th/12th century, that are extant today are so few as to indicate that no one among F r b 's successors and their follower