Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
The ninth-century Baghdad scholar who brought Greek philosophy into Arabic, broke ciphers with statistical analysis before anyone had a name for statistics, and wrote hundreds of treatises spanning everything from the nature of God to the proper mixing of perfumes.
Born in Kufa around 801, Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq al-Kindī was educated in Baghdad and rose to prominence in the House of Wisdom, where Abbasid caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into Arabic. That contact with Hellenistic thought reshaped him: he became the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, synthesizing ancient Greek ideas for a Muslim audience while writing hundreds of original works on metaphysics, medicine, optics, astronomy, and subjects as practical as swords and tides. In mathematics he helped introduce Hindu-Arabic numerals…
Sourced, dated quotes from Al-Kindi
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples.
We ought not to be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us.
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