Kindī, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq aṣ-Ṣabāḥ, al-

Kindī, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq aṣ-Ṣabāḥ, al-

▪ Muslim philosopher
died c. 870

      the first outstanding Islāmic philosopher, known as “the philosopher of the Arabs.”

      Al-Kindī was born of noble Arabic descent and flourished in Iraq under the caliphs al-Maʾmūn (813–833) and al-Muʿtaṣim (833–842). He concerned himself not only with those philosophical questions that had been treated by the Aristotelian Neoplatonists of Alexandria but also with such miscellaneous subjects as astrology, medicine, Indian arithmetic, logogriphs, the manufacture of swords, and cooking. He is known to have written more than 270 works (mostly short treatises), a considerable number of which are extant, some in Latin translations.

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