Author: al-Kindī
Alternate names: 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
Born: ca. 801
Died: ca. 873
Dates: ca. 873
Bio: 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".