A Study and Comparison of the Features of „The Fool Towns of Farabi‟ with Contemporary Cities and Districts

Hakim Abu Al Nasr Farabi, a great Muslim philosopher who is truly considered the father of Islamic philosophy, has noticed some features of the cities and their residents in his two very important and valuable works namely “Civil Policies”, and “Utopia People‟s Opinions”. He is the philosopher who stated the qualities of civil communities for the first time in the history of Islamic philosophy. This survey aims at finding a relation between „The Fool towns of Farabi‟ and the districts of our time. It is also intended to understand whether they‟re comparable or not. Additionally it is discussed how the somatic and personality qualities of „The Fool Towns‟ and their people are. By using the perceived information and by doing research on these subjects and through studying and comparing the related signs with contemporary cities we can have a critical review on today‟s situation. Therefore the purpose of this study is to recognize the somatic features of today‟s cities in order to critically review the present conditions. In this study it has been tried to clearly describe the qualities of „The Fool Towns of Farabi‟ based on a particular approach using library research methods, discourse analysis, Delphi method and, two questionnaires conducted in two districts of Mashhad. Considering the Somatic qualities of „The Fool Districts‟ which were obtained through discourse analysis and Delphi method and by their evaluation against desirable measure of uses in each district it would be feasible to find out about the present insufficiencies and the reasons of deficiencies in people‟s thoughts and personalities. The most important part of the study which is done using a questionnaire is to obtain a somatic format for the qualities of „The Fool Towns of Farabi‟ and to understand the relation between the obtained frame and the residents‟ thoughts and personalities.