Al-Kindi, Philosopher of the Arabs
ScholarPhilosopher of the Arabs
Al-Kindiالكندي
Approximate dateBaghdad
The first great philosopher writing in Arabic, who also pioneered code-breaking.
An Arab of the tribe of Kinda, born in Kufa, he worked among the translators of Baghdad under al-Mamun and his successors. He argued that philosophy and revelation agree, and wrote the earliest known work on breaking codes by counting how often letters appear.
What grew out of it?
Frequency analysis, his method, is still the starting point of cryptography.
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
Abd al-Rahman IIAl-MutasimAl-WathiqZiyadat Allah IAl-MamunAl-MutawakkilIdris IIAl-Muntasir
Source: history · Wikipedia
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People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
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- Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali
- Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib
- Urwah ibn al-Zubayr
- Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
- Amrah bint Abd al-Rahman
- Aisha bint Talhah
- Umm al-Darda
- Hasan al-Basri
- Muhammad ibn Sirin
- Hafsa bint Sirin
- Ata ibn Abi Rabah
- Mujahid ibn Jabr
- Ikrimah mawla Ibn Abbas
- Sa'id ibn Jubayr
- Ibrahim al-Nakha'i
- Wahb ibn Munabbih
- Nafi' mawla Ibn Umar
- Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
- Ja'far al-Sadiq
- Abu Hanifa
- Malik ibn Anas
- Al-Awza'i
- Al-Layth ibn Sa'd
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
- Abu Yusuf
- Muhammad al-Shaybani
- Al-Shafi'i
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Sahnun
- Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi
- Al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Abu Dawud
- Al-Tirmidhi
- Al-Nasa'i
- Ibn Majah
- Al-Daraqutni
- Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri
- Al-Bayhaqi
- Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
- Ibn Abd al-Barr
- Ibn Hazm
- Qadi Iyad
- Ibn Asakir
- Ibn al-Jawzi
- Ibn Qudamah
- Al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam
- Al-Nawawi
- Al-Dhahabi
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
- Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli
- Al-Suyuti
- Ibn Abidin
- Al-Shawkani
- Al-Tabari
- Al-Baghawi
- Al-Zamakhshari
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Al-Qurtubi
- Ibn Kathir
- Rabi'ah al-Adawiyyah
- Al-Junayd al-Baghdadi
- Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
- Al-Mawardi
- Al-Qushayri
- Al-Juwayni
- Al-Ghazali
- Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
- Ibn Arabi
- Rumi
- Sa'di
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Ibn al-Qayyim
- Baha al-Din Naqshband
- Mu'in al-Din Chishti
- Nizam al-Din Awliya
- Ahmad Sirhindi
- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
- Shah Waliullah
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
- Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad
- Sibawayh
- Ibn Muqla
- Mahmud al-Kashgari
- Ibn Malik
- Ibn Manzur
- Ibn Ajurrum
- Asim ibn Abi al-Najud
- Hafs ibn Sulayman
- Nafi' al-Madani
- Warsh
- Al-Qasim al-Shatibi
- Ibn al-Jazari
- Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Al-Kindi
- Banu Musa
- Abbas ibn Firnas
- Al-Battani
- Abu Bakr al-Razi
- Al-Farabi
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
- Al-Zahrawi
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Al-Biruni
- Ibn Sina
- Omar Khayyam
- Al-Idrisi
- Ibn Rushd
- Al-Jazari
- Ibn al-Baytar
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Jamshid al-Kashi
- Taqi al-Din
- Piri Reis
- Mimar Sinan
- Ustad Ahmad Lahori
- Sayyida Nafisa
- Fatima al-Fihri
- Al-Ijliyyah
- Sutayta al-Mahamali
- Karima al-Marwaziyya
- Shuhda al-Katibah
- Fatima al-Samarqandi
- Zaynab bint al-Kamal
- A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah
- Ibn Ishaq
- Al-Waqidi
- Ibn Hisham
- Ibn Sa'd
- Al-Baladhuri
- Al-Mas'udi
- Ibn Fadlan
- Al-Muqaddasi
- Ibn Jubayr
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
- Ibn al-Athir
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Khaldun
- Al-Maqrizi
- Zheng He
- Ahmad Baba
- Ebussuud Efendi
- Katip Celebi
- Evliya Celebi
- Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi
- Muhammad al-Jazuli
- Al-Maghili
- Ahmad al-Tijani
- Usman dan Fodio
- Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi
- Nana Asma'u
- Uways al-Barawi
- Habib Salih
- Ahmadu Bamba
- Hamzah Fansuri
- Wang Daiyu
- Nur al-Din al-Raniri
- Abd al-Rauf al-Singkili
- Liu Zhi
- Nawawi al-Bantani
- Ahmad Dahlan
- Hasyim Asy'ari
- Shihab al-Din Marjani
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan
- Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi
- Muhammad Abduh
- Marmaduke Pickthall
- Said Nursi
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Abd al-Hamid ibn Badis
- Asad ibn al-Furat
- Rashid al-Din
- Qol Sharif
- Ibrahim Muteferrika
- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
- Omar ibn Said
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
- Si Kaddour Benghabrit
- Hasan al-Banna
- Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary
- Ibrahim ibn Adham
- Thabit ibn Qurra
- Al-Mutanabbi
- Firdawsi
- Ali Hujwiri
- Al-Bakri
- Attar of Nishapur
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
- Shams Tabrizi
- Hafiz
- Jami
- Bihzad
- Zayn al-Din al-Malibari