Al-Kindi
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Al-Kindi was an Arab scholar who worked across multiple fields—philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and music theory—and is recognized as the first Islamic philosopher to follow the peripatetic tradition and the founder of Arab philosophy. His work across these diverse disciplines and his foundational role in Islamic philosophical thought make him a significant figure in the history of medieval intellectual development.
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- Born
- ca. 801
- Died
- ca. 873
- Works
- 6
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The Al-Kindî Ensemble, founded in 1983 by the french virtuoso of Arab zither (qânûn) Julien Jâlal Eddine Weiss, resident in Aleppo (capital of northern Syria and a stopping place on the famous Silk Road) is currently rated among the best formations devoted to classical Arab music, owing to the musical qualities displayed by its performers, and to the high standard of its work, steeped in the various musical traditions of the near and middle East. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Al-Kindi">Read
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Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ; ; ) was an Arab polymath who was active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. 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. He became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma), an institute of translation and learning patronized by the Abbasid caliphs, in Baghdad, and a number of Abbasid caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Hellenistic philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on him, as he synthesized, adapted and promoted Hellenistic and Peripatetic philosophy in the Muslim world. He subsequently wrote hundreds of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects, from metaphysics, ethics, logic and psychology, to medicine, pharmacology, mathematics, astronomy, astrology and optics, and further afield to more practical topics like perfumes, swords, jewels, glass, dyes, zoology, tides, mirrors, meteorology and earthquakes.
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