The start of a tradition: al-Kindī
by Sharon Hagenbeek
Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindī (circa 801–873) was the first systematic[1] philosopher in the Islamic tradition; Adamson even goes so far as to call him “the first self-consciously “philosophical” thinker”[2]. However, Leezenberg points out that most contemporary thinkers aren’t that imprested with al-Kindī, and Leezenberg does seem to count himself among them[3]. Among Muslims […]