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    Al-Kindi was an early Arabic philosopher who lived in the 9th century Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad. He worked to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Islamic world and believed these traditions were compatible with Islamic theology. Al-Kindi synthesized Greek philosophical works with Islamic doctrines and argued that both reason and revelation could be used to understand truth and God. He had a significant influence on later Muslim, Jewish, and Latin philosophers through his writings introducing Greek thought and establishing the Peripatetic philosophical tradition in the Islamic intellectual world.

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    Al-Kindi was an early Arabic philosopher who lived in the 9th century Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad. He worked to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Islamic world and believed these traditions were compatible with Islamic theology. Al-Kindi synthesized Greek philosophical works with Islamic doctrines and argued that both reason and revelation could be used to understand truth and God. He had a significant influence on later Muslim, Jewish, and Latin philosophers through his writings introducing Greek thought and establishing the Peripatetic philosophical tradition in the Islamic intellectual world.

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    Al-Kindi And The Peripatetic


    Tradition
    Baghdad

    The Centre of the World

    Strategic location

    on the great road from Iraq to Persia

    had good communication with other Iraqi cities

    The Death of The Prophet Moohammed

    Tendencies started to emerge

    sects

    consolidated schools of thought

    religious academies

    etc

    Ahl Al Hadiht

    One of the first philosophical and religious groups

    Concerned with how to interpret the teachings of Mohammed

    the scripture becomes a fundamental epistemology → the tool which isn’t used
    by this religious group

    Saw philosophy as pagan and foreign tradition

    also applies to Fideism → similar group but christian

    Al-Kindi And The Peripatetic Tradition 1


    Kalam

    Comes from the Arabic speech

    exercise of reason → when muslims were confronted with difficult questions

    ‘is it that your god punishes you?’

    ‘do we know that murder is wrong, because of scripture or because of


    reason?’

    Abide by scriptures without reason → become dogmatic

    Were ready to imbed faith and religion with reason

    Kindi (& His Peeps)

    Believed that wisdom of the Greeks and muslim theology

    the scriptures weren’t mutually exclusive

    both intellectual traditions → equally good tools to achieve bigger intellectual


    clarity

    Umayyad Caliphate

    661 - 750 AD

    At that time → a vast spreading empire

    Struggled on how to unify under one empire

    different religions, languages, traditions

    With the rise of the Abbasids and their empire → the Western part of Umayyad
    Caliphate wasn’t integrated into the empire

    Persian Influences
    The Transition Movement

    Al-Kindi And The Peripatetic Tradition 2


    Via translation → new concepts introduced

    Philosophy

    astrology

    astronomy

    mathematics

    gnomology

    ethics

    agriculture

    military science

    medicine

    magic

    alchemy

    Arabic Philosophical Traditions

    Peripatetic

    mostly muslim

    some christians

    some jews

    Sutism → mystical tradition

    almost completely bypassing traditional philosophy methods associated with


    Peripatetics

    …→ not fully committed to Peripatetic or Sutism

    Kalan → theology inclined way of understanding the way

    Patronage & Education

    Salon culture → debates & heresies

    Al-Kindi And The Peripatetic Tradition 3


    Scientific programmes

    caliph, vizier, court officials

    Princes

    Al-Kindi in 9th century

    astronomy → God’s glory

    aristotelian science of natural philosophy → islamic science that


    demonstrates God’s glory

    Production of encyclopaedias

    knowledge as salvation

    sacredness of scholars & scientists

    Cross-denominational cooperation

    translational circles in Baghdad

    christians & muslims

    Workshops on book-making

    Baghdad

    Binding

    Illustrated

    Pictorial knowledge

    Al-Kindi

    Translation movement

    Close of capital court

    First Arabic philosopher

    Prolific

    Acutely aware of philosophical & scientific corpus of Greek writers

    Late antique movements (Greek) → what kind of philosophy

    Al-Kindi And The Peripatetic Tradition 4


    Al-Kindi & Islamic Theology

    critique of christian doctrine of the trinity

    Prophetic knowledge

    miraculous nature of Qur’an

    Al-Kindi on metaphysics

    God-talk

    ‘the first truth is the cause of all truths'

    oneness → the basis of metaphysics

    true one

    neoplatonic emanations

    Al-Kindi on the human soul

    the soul → substance → soul is essential to humanity → living is substantial →


    the soul is substance

    Legacy

    synopsis of Greek thought

    Kindian tradition → systemiser

    introduced Greek philosophy to Muslim audiences

    influence on Muslim & Jewish philosophers

    Farabi

    Ibn Sina

    Isaac Israeli

    influence of Latin tradition → astrology

    Al-Kindi And The Peripatetic Tradition 5

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