Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".
| Born | ca. 801 |
| Died | ca. 873 |
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| Born | ca. 801 |
| Died | ca. 873 |
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- OLID: OL4850286A
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- أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي
- Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī
- Al-Kindi
- Alkindus
- d. ca. 873 al-Kindi
- Yā'kūb ibn Ishāk ibn Subbāh, Abū Yūsuf, al-Kindī
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