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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: 800 births, 801 births, 802 births, 803 births, 804 births, 805 births, 806 births, 807 births, 808 births, 809 births, Louis the German, Ansgar, Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Al-Kindi, Emperor Wenzong of Tang, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Emperor Jingzong of Tang, Kang Chengxun, Zhou Bao, Bayazid Bastami, Hincmar, Liu Congjian, Tung-shan, Amoghavarsha, Ralpacan, Bi Xian, Wang Chengyuan, He Hongjing, Walafrid Strabo, Gottschalk of Orbais, Tian Huaijian, Ono no Takamura, Abu Tammam, Constantine, Du Mu, Hemma, Aldric of Le Mans, Judith of Bavaria, Al-Abb s ibn Said al-Jawhar, Nagabhata II, Drogo of Metz, Waldrada of Worms, Govindasv mi, Dongshan Shouchu, Robert III of Worms, Hugh, son of Charlemagne, Conwoion, Leuthard II of Paris. Excerpt: (Arabic: ) (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinised version of his name Alkindus to the Western world, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is best known for his efforts to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Arab world. Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe. He was born and educated in Kufa, before going to pursue further studies in Baghdad. Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and lead him to write a number of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects ranging from metaphysics and ethics to mathematics and pharmacology. In the field of mathematics, al-Kindi played an important role in introducing Indian numerals to the Isl...
