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6 quotes from Abu Yusuf al-Kindi: 'One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.', 'We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us.
Al-Kindi Quotes. To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example. We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples.
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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-Kindi, the Mu’tazalites and the crystallization of Islamic orthodoxy. Al Kindi was witness to the turbulence caused in the Islamic world by the introduction of Greek philosophy and its ultimate rejection in favor of empirical science.
KINDĪ, ABU YŪSUF YA ʿ QŪB IBN ISḤAQ AL- ° (805–873), most notable "philosopher of the Arabs." Al-Kindī is known to have written more than 270 works. His writings, many of them short treatises, deal with arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, astrology, pharmacology, meteorology, chemistry, medicine, optics, divination, music, and polemics.
