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How the Arab thinker Al-Farabi drew on Plato to shape the Muslim world’s ideas about censorship
His rationalisation for controlling creative writing enabled a further move to deny legitimacy to new interpretation.
Rashmee Roshan Lall, Aeon
· Nov 19, 2018 · 10:00 pm
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