Al-Kindi
Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Ninth-century Arab polymath who wrote on philosophy, math, medicine, and music theory. Al-Kindi got noticed as Islam's first major peripatetic philosopher, anchoring the intellectual bridge between Greek thought and the Islamic world.
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Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī was an Arab polymath who was 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".
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