 Al-Fârâbî does not take inspiration from Aristotle’s Politics (a text which does not seem to have been translated or summarized into Arabic) but rather takes some inspiration from Plato’s Republic and Laws, even if his access to these two texts may have been rather limited, as there is some doubt that a full Arabic translation of them ever existed. Though Averroes wrote a commentary of sort on the Republic, its brevity and content do not testify to an in-depth knowledge of the whole text. Yet, David C. Reisman (2004) discovered an Arabic translation of a single passage from the Republic (VI, 506d3–509b10). As for the Laws, we certainly have al-Fârâbî’s Summary of Plato’s Laws, but this text (Arabic ed. by Th.-A. Druart (1998) and English translation by Butterworth, in The Political Writings, II, (2015: 129–73)) is very brief and covers only the first eight books. Whether this summary relies on a full or partial Arabic translation of the Laws or on a translation of a Greek summary, possibly that of Galen (lost in Greek), at this stage cannot be determined. For the latest status quaestionis about Arabic translations of Plato’s works and their paucity, see Dimitri Gutas (2012). Al-Fârâbî’s own brief Philosophy of Plato does not exhibit detailed knowledge of Plato’s works.