Biography of al kindi philosopher
What is al-kindi best known for
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ ælˈkɪndi /; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. – AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist.Al-kindi philosophy and religion Al-Kindī was the first outstanding Islamic philosopher, known as “the philosopher of the Arabs.” Al-Kindī was born of noble Arabic descent and flourished in Iraq under the Abbasid caliphs al-Maʾmūn (–) and al-Muʿtaṣim (–). He concerned himself not only with those philosophical questions.
Al-kindi death Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (ca. – 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.
When was al-kindi born al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq (d. c–73) Practically unknown in the Western world, al-Kindi has an honoured place in the Islamic world as the ‘philosopher of the Arabs’. Today he might be viewed as a bridge between Greek philosophers and Islamic philosophy.