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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.
Al-Kind ī is ranked among the 12 greatest minds of Islam, but he was more encyclopedic than creative. His industry and literary activity contributed to the early diffusion of Greek learning and Persian-Indian science.
Al-Kindī is widely known as the first of the Islamic philosophers. In ninth century Baghdad he gathered around himself a circle that was highly active in translating the Greek sciences into Arabic.
Al-Kindī (c. 800–870) was the first figure in the Arabic philosophical tradition to make explicit and extensive use of Greek ideas. He is thus often described as the first philosopher of this tradition. He also oversaw the work of translators who rendered works by Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, and others into Arabic.
Aug 2, 2012 · This volume presents the philosophical writings of al-Kindī, known as the 'Philosopher of the Arabs'. Acknowledged as the first philosopher of the Arabic tradition, al-Kindī helped usher...
Al-Kindī is well known as the first great ‘Islamic philosopher’. In contrast to his eminent successors, i.e. al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd, he adhered to the idea of a creation in time, not...
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There have been many approaches and understanding of Islam since it was born. However, the first man called Islam philosopher and well-known is el-Al-Kindi. Al-Kindi was inspired from ancient Greek philosophers’ ideas and opinions of Platon, Aristoteles and Neo-Platonists.
