Medieval · c. 801–873
Who influenced Al-Kindi?
Influences and legacy
The first Islamic philosopher: reconciled Aristotle with revelation and founded Arabic logic.
Al-Kindi was influenced by Aristotle, and went on to influence Al-Razi and Al-Farabi. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Al-Kindi?
Al-Kindi, born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad, was the first of the Islamic Peripatetic philosophers and is called the father of Arab philosophy. Several Abbasid caliphs put him in charge of translating Greek science and philosophy into Arabic at the House of Wisdom, and he adapted and promoted that Greek learning in the Muslim world.
He wrote hundreds of treatises, from metaphysics and ethics to medicine, optics, perfumes and swords. With al-Khwarizmi he helped bring Hindu-Arabic numerals into the Islamic world, and his treatise on deciphering coded messages introduced frequency analysis, the start of cryptanalysis. His philosophy argues that reason and Islamic theology can be reconciled.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Al-Kindi?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
Who did Al-Kindi influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Al-Kindi.
The line of teachers behind Al-Kindi
The longest documented line of influence ending at Al-Kindi runs 6 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Al-Kindi
Indirect influences
The second generation
Contemporaries of Al-Kindi
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Al-Kindi, with no direct line between them.
- Adi Shankara 788–820
- John Scotus Eriugena c. 815–877
Al-Kindi by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 2 — #49 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 15
- Thinkers downstream
- 154
- Wikipedia languages
- 73 — #18 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Al-Kindi
- Who influenced Al-Kindi?
- Aristotle.
- Who did Al-Kindi influence?
- Al-Razi and Al-Farabi.
- When did Al-Kindi live?
- c. 801–873. The map files Al-Kindi under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Al-Kindi card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Al-Kindi in 73 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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