Foundations of Cultural Diplomacy in Farabi’s Political Philosophy

This study explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Al-Farabi’s political philosophy, specifically the strategic function of orators and poets in his “virtuous city.” By analyzing Farabi’s theory of the imaginative faculty (al-quwwah al-mutakhayyilah), the research argues that these groups are central to governance, serving as intermediaries who translate intellectual truths into sensory and persuasive forms. The study posits that Farabi’s framework offers a pre-modern model of cultural diplomacy—not as mere artistic exchange, but as an epistemological process for communicating rational truth across communities, thereby integrating aesthetics into the structure of ideal governance.

کلیدواژه ها:

Farabi ، Cultural diplomacy ، Virtuous City ، Imagination (Takhyil) ، rhetoric ، Islamic Political Philosophy ، prophecy