Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al-Kindi (died 873) was the first significant Arabian philosopher to utilize and develop the philosophical conceptions of Greek thought. His work significantly affected the intellectual development of western Europe in the...

c. 801-c. 866 Arab Philosopher, Astronomer, Mathematician, Physician, and Geographer Al-Kindi, known in the West as Alkindus, was one of the Islamic world's most important and prolific scholars. The scope of his work was encyclopedic,...