reviser · scholar

al-Kindi الكندي

c. 801–870

The first philosopher of the Arabs, tutor to the Abbasid prince Ahmad ibn al-Mu'tasim, and impresario of a translation circle that put Greek metaphysics into Arabic. He corrected the Arabic Plotinus paraphrase for his student; the result carried Aristotle's name and Neoplatonism's content.

Crossings

c. 833–842 Enneads , Greek Arabic · reviser · Baghdad attested

Sources

Adamson, Peter (2025). The Theology of Aristotle.
Gutas, Dimitri (1998). Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society.