 Though al-Fârâbî’s political philosophy takes some inspiration from Plato, it much transforms it in important and interesting ways to reflect a very different world and adapt it to it. Instead of a monolingual and monoethnic city state, al-Fârâbî envisions a vast multicultural, multilingual, and multireligious empire (Alexander Orwin, 2017). He also sees the necessity to make of the philosopher king a philosopher prophet ruler. 