Aḥmad b. al-Ṭayyib al-Sarakhsī, Abū al-ʿAbbās, known as Ibn al-Farāʾiqī (d. 286/899), was a Persian philosopher, logician, man of letters, traditionist, musicologist and translator of Greek works into Arabic. Aḥmad b. al-Ṭayyib al-Sarakhsī was born in the city of Sarakhs in Khurāsān. He travelled to Iraq to study under the philosopher al-Kindī (d. 258/872), eventually becoming one of his most devoted students (Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, 1/214; Ibn al-Nadīm, 320; Yāqūt, Udabāʾ, 3/98; al-Shahrastānī, 2/158). No source mentions his date of birt…