Al-Farabi as well as Ibn Sina and Averroes have been recognized as Peripatetics (al-Mashsha'iyun) or rationalists (Estedlaliun) among Muslims [REF].
According to Adamson, his work was singularly directed towards the goal of simultaneously reviving and reinventing the Alexandrian philosophical tradition, to which his Christian teacher, Yuhanna bin Haylan belonged.