Characteristics of just cities

Characteristics of just cities

 

Kazakh al-Farabi
This image of the eminent Muslim philosopher al-Farabi appears on a Kazakhstan banknote
(Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

“A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.”

Abu Nasr al-Farabi (d. AD 950)

 

Al-Farabi was writing in a period of political fragmentation, a time increasingly marked by small princedoms and even city-states.

 

 


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