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Biography of Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al- Kindi
Name: Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al- Kindi
Birth Date: N/A
Death Date: 873
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Arabian
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher
Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al- Kindi
Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al-Kindi (died 873) was the first significant Arabian philosopher to utilize and develop the philosophical conceptions of Greek thought. His work significantly affected the intellectual development of western Europe in the 13th century.A great achievement of medieval Islamic civilization was the development of a philosophical tradition that preserved and expanded upon many of the important elements of Greek learning and outshone the contemporary philosophical and scientific knowledge of Christian Europe.Al-Kindi and later Arabian philosophers, such as al-Farabi, Avicenna, Avempace, and Averroës, benefited from the missionary zeal of the Hellenistic Mutazilite movement, which, in the 9th century, encouraged the study of Greek philosophy and logic to combat the Moslem heretics who affirmed either a Gnostic or a Manichaean dualism. Arabian philosophy, as it developed from the 9th to the 12th century, was basically Neoplatonic in structure and incorporated large portions of Aristotelian philosophy, along with …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…glass on the process of vision. In a treatise on sky color, he discussed the effect of dust and vapor.The works of al-Kindi set the foundation for the achievements of Arabian philosophy and science. Later scholars adopted his belief that mathematics was the basis of science. The type of questions raised and the explanation of Aristotelian concepts in Neoplatonic terms established a pattern for later Arabian philosophers. Although not the most famous thinker in Islamic philosophy, al-Kindi began a movement of great importance in both European and Islamic civilizations. Further Reading There is, at present, no major work in English on al-Kindi. Discussions of his philosophical contribution can be found in Tjitze J. de Boer, The History of Philosophy in Islam (1901; trans. 1903), and Julius Weinberg, A Short History of Medieval Philosophy (1964). The scientific contribution of al-Kindi is best described in George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, vol. 1 (1927).
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