Embracing Truth: Insights from Al-Kindi

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Alchemy-Kindi The truth is a hard thing to wrap our minds around. We want to hear it but at the same time it can hurt us. In the end it is always better to find out the truth. A brilliant man named Al-Kindi stated “We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself” (“Al-Kindi”). Al-Kindi is saying his quote that the truth has the ultimate power. An individual should embrace the truth from any place it is presented. Al-Kindi, an influential man in the Arabic culture was a philosopher and translator of works such as Aristotle, Napoleon, mathematics, and he wrote numerous philosophical works on astrology and music (Adamson, Peter “Al-Kindi”). …show more content…

Al Kufa was a center for Arab culture and learning in the 9th century because it was a center for learning. This is where he was able to receive the best possible education during that time. According to scholars Connor and Robertson, Al-Kindi's father was the governor of Kufah (“Abu Yusuf Yaqub Ibn Ishaq Al-Sabbah Al-Kindi”), as his grandfather had been before him. It has been deemed true by several sources that Al-Kindi was descended from the Royal Kindah tribe which had originated in southern Arabia. Al-Kindi’s promising future of wisdom and philosophical desire first erupted into a small but steady flame in this town of Al

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