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Which polymath's work did Al-Kindi synthesize, adapt and promote in the Muslim world?

  • Aristotle

  • Newton

  • Hellenistic and Peripatetic philosophers

  • Galileo

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Al-Kindi was a Muslim polymath who synthesized, adapted, and promoted the work of Hellenistic and Peripatetic philosophers in the Muslim world. He was one of the most important philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age, and his work had a profound influence on later thinkers, such as Avicenna and Averroes.
The Trailblazing Mind: Exploring the Legacy of Al-Kindi

The Trailblazing Mind: Exploring the Legacy of Al-Kindi

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