Early Islamic philosophy
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Early Islamic philosophy or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar and lasting until the 6th century AH.
Al-Farabi (Alfarabi), the founder of Farabism.
Averroes (Ibn Rushd), the founder of Averroism.
Avicenne Avicenna Ibn Sina CIPB2067
Al-Kindi
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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.