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AL KINDI
Al-Kindi, the Latin Al-Kindus, who is entitled the “philosophers” of Arabs, came from the Arabs tribe of Kindah. His Ancestors had settled in Kufa where his father was governor. Al Kindi spent his early life in Kufa, which had become a center of the sciences. He studied the religious science as well as philosophical sciences after going to Baghdad. At this time the major movement of translation into Arabic had already begun. He knew Syria and perhaps some Greek and was well acquainted with Gresco Hellenstic scientific and philosophical works. For sometime, he was held in high esteem in court but spent the last part of his life in obscurity.
Al-Kindi was the first of the Moslem philosopher scientist. His interest was encyclopedic. The wrote about two hundreds seventy treaties, most of which are now lost, in logic Philosophy, physics, all branches of mathematics as well as music, medicine and natural history. He was the founder of the Islamic peripatetic school of Philosophy and was highly respect in the medieval and renaissance west to the extent that he was considered as one of the twelve great intellectual figures of the humanity. His immediate students were well-known geographers and mathematicians while his philosophic influence is to be seen directly in the writings of Al Farabi and later Moslem Peripatic.
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