 Although al-Fārābī doesn’t recommend any particular reforms of language, he does make some detailed recommendations for a philosopher who is seeking to translate philosophy from another language and needs to introduce technical terms for the purpose. ([Letters] (155) 157.19–158.21.) It would be interesting to compare al-Fārābī’s recommendations with his own practice, if we could be sure which of the technical terms used for translating Greek writers we can credit to  him.[7] 