[Revised entry by Peter Adamson on April 25, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (ca. 800 – 870 CE) was the first self-identified philosopher in the Arabic tradition. He worked with a group of translators who rendered works of Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and Greek mathematicians and scientists into Arabic. Al-Kindi’s own treatises, many of them epistles addressed to members of the caliphal family, depended heavily on these translations, which included the famous Theology of Aristotle…

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