Majid Fakhry was born in 1923 in Lebanon. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from the American University of Beirut, Fakhry received his Ph.D. in philosophy from
University of Edinburgh in 1949. He taught at the
London School of Oriental Studies,
UCLA,
Princeton University, and
Georgetown University, where he spent his final years as professor emeritus, in addition to teaching and leading the Philosophy Department at the American University of Beirut. Fakhry's courses at AUB provided many students with their first introduction to the history of philosophy between the 1950s and the 1980s. Fakhry died in Virginia, United States on March 4, 2021. it is considered the first historical overview on Islamic thought and was well received.
Columbia University Press published a revised 3rd edition of Fakhry's
A History of Islamic Philosophy in 2004. He also wrote an introduction on Farabi's thought under a Neoplatonist perspective. ==Works==