c. 950

Al-Farabi, "the Second Teacher", dies

Al-Farabi (c. 870-950), who works at Baghdad and Aleppo, is called the Second Teacher, after Aristotle. He writes commentaries on Aristotle's logic, De Interpretatione, Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics, and shapes Avicenna, Averroes and Maimonides. He dies at Damascus.