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Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy". Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad.
Dec 1, 2006 · Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (ca. 800–870 CE) was the first self-identified philosopher in the Arabic tradition. He worked with a group of translators who rendered works of Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and Greek mathematicians and scientists into Arabic.
al-Kindī (died c. 870) was the first outstanding Islamic philosopher, known as “the philosopher of the Arabs .” Al-Kindī was born of noble Arabic descent and flourished in Iraq under the Abbasid caliphs al-Maʾmūn (813–833) and al-Muʿtaṣim (833–842).
Apr 25, 2019 · Abu Yusef Yaqoub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi ( (185-256 AH / 805-873 AD) ) is the father of Islamic Philosophy. He was also a scientist of high caliber a gifted Mathematician, astronomer, physician and a geographer as well as a talented musician.
Abu Yusuf Yaqub Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, one of the most celebrated of the philosophers and natural scientists of the classical age of Islam, was born in Kufa in the year 800 CE in the illustrious al Kindah clan from South Yemen. During the 5 th and 6 th centuries, the al Kindah had unified several tribes under its aegis.
May 6, 2007 · Ishaq al-Kindi was an early Arab scholar of the 9th century, one of the first great scientists that set the stage for the brilliant Islamic tradition of learning. His works in philosophy, cosmology, mathematics, optics, music, cryptology and medicine had a tremendous influence on later centuries.
Nov 10, 2021 · Al-Kindī’s writings were on a variety of subject matters and belonged to several branches of science, including philosophy, arithmetic, spherics, music, astronomy, geometry, cosmology, medicine, astrology, and others. They were of varying length, but most are shorter epistles ( rasāʾil ).
The earliest important Islamic philosopher, al-Kindi began the process of assimilating Neoplatonic and Aristotelian thought into the Islamic world. He taught in Baghdad, and was responsible for translations of Aristotle and Plotinus.
Al-Kindi, a luminary in the galaxy of medieval Islamic scholars, stands as a monumental figure bridging the ancient and medieval worlds. Born in the 9th century in Kufa, Al-Kindi was a vanguard in the Islamic Golden Age, a polymath whose expertise spanned across philosophy, science, mathematics, and medicine.
Abu Yusuf Ya qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi was an ethnic Arab (died in Baghdad between AH 252 60/AD 866 73), with an illustrious lineage going back to such near-mythic Arabian families as Qays.
