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Editorial

The Collective City

by AmirAli Maleki

“The collective city [al-madīnah al-jamāʿiyyah – a society with a free and inclusive government] is the city of freedoms… In such cities, there are many aims and purposes, and the methods are diverse.”
(Al-Farabi Al-Madīnah, p.192).

Iran, Winter of 2025/6.

This sentence by the medieval Islamic philosopher Al-Farabi is not a relic.

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