al-Kindī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Kindī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Adamson, Peter

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060240
Doc. NO	:	ALei637
Main Entry	:	Adamson, Peter
Title & Author	:	al-Kindī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Adamson, Peter
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,640 words)
Abstract	:	Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī (d. c.256/870) is recognised as the first Hellenising philosopher to write in Arabic. He was known as the “philosopher of the Arabs,” a particularly apt honorific. He came from the important Arab tribe of Kinda and could trace his lineage back to a companion of the Prophet. He was arguably the first “philosopher” of the Islamic world, at least if “philosopher” means someone who draws on the sciences of the Greeks. Despite occasional reports that he translated from Greek, it seems
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei637.pdf