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What is Farabi Exchange Program?
Farabi
is an exchange program of students (at associate, bachelor, masters or
doctorate levels) as well as teaching staff members among the Turkish
higher education institutions, including universities and institutes of
technology.
Farabi
Exchange Program's aim is that university students and teaching staff
members participate in education and training at a higher education
institution other than their own during a period of one or two
semesters.
The
principles regarding the execution of the Farabi Exchange program have
been outlined fully in the related By-Law and Rules and Procedures of
the program.
Farabi (871-950)
Farabi
was born in Turkestan's city of Farab in 871. He travelled about the
important centers of science and learning of his time period such as
Bukhara, Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, Harran and Aleppo. He produced works
in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, logic, political science and
music.
In the Islamic world, he attained to a high level of fame and prestige
in the field of philosophy, one that is comparable to that of Aristo's,
and is named as the "second teacher" in the after math of Aristo, the "first teacher". Farabi is known in the West as "Alpharabius".
He passed away in 950 in Damascus.