 Physics includes Aristotle’s On the soul and scholars have paid much attention to al-Fârâbî’s little treatise On intellect (ed. by M. Bouyges, 1983). A full English translation of this important treatise, of which there exist two Medieval Latin versions, was finally given by McGinnis &amp; Reisman in their Classical Arabic Philosophy (2007: 68–78). Philippe Vallat published an extensive study of al-Farabi’s views on the intellect (2019a). The issue of the soul and the intellect is linked to logic, ethics, cosmology, and metaphysics. It also gives rise to a debate. Earlier scholars considered that for al-Fârâbî universals are acquired by emanation from the Agent Intellect, which for him is the tenth and last Intelligence, even if in many passages the second master uses the language of abstraction. Recently, Richard Taylor (2006 &amp; 2010) argued that, on the contrary, there is genuine abstraction in al-Fârâbî, even if in some ways it involves the emanative power of the Agent Intellect.