Al-Kindi (Kindî)
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Kufa |
Iraq | |
Died | Baghdad |
Iraq | |
Full name | Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī |
Influenced | Miskawayh |
Abu Maʿshar | |
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi | |
Education | House of Wisdom |
Parents | Isaac Ben-Sabah |
School | Aristotelianism |
Regions | Islamic philosophy |
Era | Islamic Golden Age |
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ID | 1665685 |
Al-Kindi (Kindî) Life story
Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician. 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.