Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī was an Arab polymath who was active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic phi
al-Kindi on Iraqi stamp from 1962
Liber novem iudicum in iudiciis astrorum, 1509
De radiis, manuscript, 17th century. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, Medieval manuscripts, MS R.15.17 (937).
Ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly respected in the medieval Islamic world.
Aristotelianism is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphy
Aristotle by Francesco Hayez, 1811
Aristotle, holding his Ethics (detail from The School of Athens)