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Dec 1, 2006 · Al-Kindi was a member of the Arab tribe of Kinda, which had played an important role in the early history of Islam. His lineage earned him the title “philosopher of the Arabs” among later writers. We know that al-Kindi died after 866 CE, and his death date is usually put in the early 870s.
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 ...
- c. 873 (aged approximately 72), Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (now in Iraq)
- Islamic philosophy
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Al-Kindi was best known as a philosopher but he was also a mathematician and scientist of importance [3]:-. To his people he became known as ... the philosopher of the Arabs. He was the only notable philosopher of pure Arabian blood and the first one in Islam. Al-Kindi "was the most leaned of his age, unique among his contemporaries in the ...
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.
Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al-Kindi (died 873) was the first significant Arabian philosopher to utilize and develop the philosophical conceptions of Greek thought. His work significantly affected the intellectual development of western Europe in the 13th century. A great achievement of medieval Islamic civilization was the development of a ...
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 ...
Apr 25, 2019 · Al-Kindi. Posted on April 25, 2019 by ip. 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. He is said to have uttered the following quote:
