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Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy ". [2] [3] [4] Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad. [5] He became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical ...
Court Scholar. Al-Kindi was born at Al Kufa (in modern Iraq) on the Euphrates in the early years of the 9th century. Most of his life he lived in that region, at Basra, and, eventually, at Baghdad until he died in 873.
Al-Kindi. Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known as the first Islamic philosopher, and also as a scientist, mathematician, physician, and 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.
Ab ū -Y ū suf Ya ʿ q ū b ibn Ish ā q al-Kind ī was the first outstanding Arabic-writing philosopher. He was born in the Mesopotamian city of Basra and later held a distinguished position at the caliph's court in Baghdad, where he died shortly after 870.
Ethics. 1. Logic and translation. 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. Al-Kindi was known as 'the philosopher of the Arabs' in contrast to the later Islamic philosophers who, though Muslim, were ...
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Al-Kind ī was born about 801 in al-K ū fah (Kufa), Iraq, where his father was a governor under the ‘ Abb ā sids. He studied at Baghdad, where he flourished and died about 873. As a young man he held positions in the courts of al-Ma ’ m ū m (813 – 833) and al-Mu ’ ta ṣ im (833 – 842), whose son he tutored.
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