Foundations of Cultural Diplomacy in Farabi’s Political Philosophy(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)
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This study explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Al-Farabi’s political philosophy, specifically the strategic function of orators and poets in his “virtuous city.” By analyzing Farabi’s theory of the imaginative faculty (al-quwwah al-mutakhayyilah), the research argues that these groups are central to governance, serving as intermediaries who translate intellectual truths into sensory and persuasive forms. The study posits that Farabi’s framework offers a pre-modern model of cultural diplomacy—not as mere artistic exchange, but as an epistemological process for communicating rational truth across communities, thereby integrating aesthetics into the structure of ideal governance.