Al-Kindi

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Arab philosopher Islamic philosopher astronomer chemist early medieval philosopher logician mathematician music theorist philosopher physician polymath

Al-Kindi was a pioneering 9th-century Arab philosopher, mathematician, and polymath often called the “Philosopher of the Arabs” for his role in introducing and developing Greek philosophy within the Islamic intellectual tradition.

Aliases (2)

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Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi ×1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Arab philosopher → Islamic philosopher → astronomer → chemist → early medieval philosopher → logician → mathematician → music theorist → philosopher → physician → polymath →
associatedWith	House of Wisdom in Baghdad →
birthDate	c. 801 →
birthPlace	Abbasid Caliphate → Kufa →
contribution	development of a philosophical vocabulary in Arabic → early formulation of frequency analysis in cryptanalysis → systematic use of mathematics in medicine and pharmacology →
deathDate	c. 873 →
deathPlace	Abbasid Caliphate → Baghdad →
employer	Abbasid Caliphate →
era	Islamic Golden Age → Medieval philosophy →
ethnicGroup	Arab →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → cryptology → mathematics → medicine → music theory → optics → philosophy →
fullName	Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi →
honorificName	Philosopher of the Arabs →
influenced	Al-Farabi → Avicenna → later Islamic philosophers → medieval Latin scholasticism →
influencedBy	Aristotle → Hellenistic philosophy → Neoplatonism → Plato →
knownFor	early work on cryptanalysis → integrating Aristotelian and Neoplatonic thought with Islamic theology → introducing Greek philosophy into the Arabic-speaking world → works on astrology and astronomy → works on logic → works on mathematics → works on medicine → works on metaphysics → works on music theory → works on optics →
language	Arabic → translated Greek works into Arabic →
notableWork	De Gradibus (On Degrees) → On First Philosophy → On the Use of the Indian Numerals →
occupation	astronomer → mathematician → music theorist → philosopher → physician → polymath →
patron	Abbasid caliphs →
philosophicalSchool	Peripatetic philosophy in the Islamic world →
region	Iraq → Islamic world →
religion	Islam →
workLocation	Baghdad →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Early Islamic period ("al-Kindi") → Islamic astronomy →	hasKeyFigure
Islamic mathematics → Islamic philosophy →	majorFigure
House of Wisdom ("al-Kindi") → Islamic Golden Age →	notableScholar
Al-Kindi ("Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi") →	fullName
Islamic medicine →	keyFigure