Al-Kindi

Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي, Latin: Alkindus) (c. 801–873 AD), known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world.

Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe. He was born in Basra and educated in Baghdad. Al-Kindi 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 texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and led him to write hundreds of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects ranging 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.

Al-Kindi (surname)

Al-Kindi (Arabic: الكندي) indicates affiliation with the Arabian Kinda tribe.

People with the surname include:

  • Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim scientist, philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician.
  • Miqdad ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
  • Raja Ibn Haywah al-Kindi: Islamic jurist and Arabic calligraphist.
  • Zaynab bint ʿUmar b. al-Kindī, woman hadith scholar, teacher of Al-Dhahabi.
  • Abd al-Masih ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, Christian theologian.
  • Alkindi (fencer), an Indonesian Olympic fencer.
  • See also

  • Kindi (disambiguation)
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    Khaleejtimes 27 Feb 2025
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    Urdu Point 27 Feb 2025
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    Bahrain News Agency 22 Feb 2025
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    Eye Of Riyadh 17 Feb 2025
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    Khaleejtimes 10 Feb 2025
    “The announcement of the new passenger terminal at Al Maktoum International Airport last year has further amplified demand for properties in Dubai South,” Nabil Al Kindi, CEO of Dubai South Properties, told Khaleej Times.
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