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It could be argued that a majority of the literature on political philosophy in the Islamic world is based on the relations between ethics and politics, as well as idealized criteria for rulerse.g. philosopher and/or prophet-kings (modelled on the personality of Muhammad the prophet). Especially, in the early middle ages, Al-Fârâbî and Avicenna-both from Transoxiana-supported the ideal of philosopher/prophet-king, an ethically perfect individual, as the head of virtuous polity. Although Al-Fârâbî’s political philosophy takes some inspiration from Plato, it transforms the legacy in important and interesting ways to reflect a very different world and adapt it to this world. In other words, instead of a monolingual and monoethnic city state, Al-Fârâbî’s vision suggests a vast multicultural, multilingual, and multi-religious empire; despite the fact that city (madinah)-adapted from Plato’s polis- is a dominant term in his political philosophy.