 Marwan Rashed (2009) introduced a new element in the controversy by putting into serious doubt the authenticity of al-Fârâbî’s Harmonization of the Opinions of the Two Sages. Following an Alexandrian tradition, this treatise (for Butterworth’s 2001 English translation, see above) argues that, despite a series of issues on which Aristotle and Plato seem to contradict each other, there is remarkable harmony between these two sages, as one can easily resolve such contradictions. This text also refers 1. to the so-called Aristotle’s Theology, which in fact Aristotle never wrote, as it derives from Plotinus, and 2. to Proclus Arabus, as Peter Adamson (forthcoming) shows. On the other hand, Cecilia Martini Bonadeo, in her 2008 critical edition and Italian translation of this text (al-Fârâbî, L’armonia delle opinioni dei due sapienti, il divino Platone e Aristotele), argued for the Farabian authenticity of this text. Whether one accepts the Farabian authorship of this text affects one’s understanding of the whole controversy of how to read al-Fârâbî, as well as one’s understanding of the relationship between his Aristotelianism and his Neo-Platonism. It also makes the whole issue of the relationship between his metaphysics and his political philosophy still more complex and convoluted.