Asceticism between Ibn al-Mubarak and al-Farabi

Abstract

Since the "asceticism" of the concepts ambiguous to some, and was the son of Mubarak of the first to classify the modernists in the moral side has singled out a special book on asceticism, and Al-Farabi was famous among the philosophers of asceticism, I saw a comparison between them to stand on the concept of asceticism they have, and know the difference between understanding and application of each of them for asceticism, has appeared that Ibn Mubarak has understood asceticism as evidenced by the legal texts and complied with a practical reality, but Al-Farabi has taken a philosophical path is not related to asceticism The project is relevant, and his understanding of asceticism is disturbed, and it is not surprising if it tries to reconcile Islamic ethics with philosophical concepts that cannot meet, as explained in this paper