PHILOSOPHER

Al-Kindi

801 - 866

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Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath 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, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Kindi is the 76th most popular philosopher (down from 66th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Philosopher.

Al-Kindi is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He was the first to introduce Aristotle's work to the Islamic world.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Al-Kindi ranks 76 out of 1,267. Before him are Ibn Arabi, Nagarjuna, Pliny the Elder, Peter Abelard, Leucippus, and Edmund Husserl. After him are Nicholas of Cusa, Rudolf Steiner, Gregory of Nazianzus, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Karl Jaspers, and Roland Barthes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 801, Al-Kindi ranks 1. After him are Ansgar, Ya'qubi, Malcolm I of Scotland, Huang Chao, Theodora, Constantine II of Scotland, Leo Phokas the Elder, Enravota, Zoe Zaoutzaina, Eudokia Dekapolitissa, and Grímur Kamban. Among people deceased in 866, Al-Kindi ranks 1. After him are Robert the Strong, Liudolf, Duke of Saxony, Al-Musta'in, Bardas, Linji Yixuan, Ordoño I of Asturias, Charles the Child, Eberhard of Friuli, and Ranulf I of Aquitaine.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Kindi ranks 9 out of 384. Before him are Hammurabi (-1810), Saddam Hussein (1937), Nebuchadnezzar II (-630), Abu Hanifa (698), Ibn al-Haytham (965), and Möngke Khan (1209). After him are Ashurbanipal (-685), Sarah (-1803), Rabia of Basra (710), Al-Masudi (896), Sargon of Akkad (-2300), and Fuzûlî (1494).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iraq

Among philosophers born in Iraq, Al-Kindi ranks 1. After him are Al-Ash'ari (873), Al-Jahiz (775), Abu Yusuf (731), Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809), Diogenes of Babylon (-240), Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (1080), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), Ibn Abi'l-Hadid (1190), and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863).

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