Al-Kindi
c. 801 – 873 · 72 years · Baghdad · Middle East
Philosophy: Falsafa (founder)
Worked at Baghdad's House of Wisdom, where Greek authors were translated. The first Arab thinker to bring Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy into dialogue with Islam; he also wrote on mathematics, music and ciphers.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charlemagne — King of the Franks, Emperor, 53 years older
- Charles the Bald — first king of West Francia, the future France, 22 years younger
- Louis the Pious — Charlemagne's son, under whom his empire began to break up, 23 years older
- Alfred the Great — King of Wessex who held off the Vikings, 48 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Rurik — Varangian prince, founder of the Rurik dynasty, 29 years younger
- Oleg the Wise — prince who united Novgorod and Kiev and campaigned against Constantinople, 44 years younger
Middle East
- Al-Khwarizmi — mathematician and astronomer, 21 years older
Asia
- Adi Shankara — Indian Vedanta philosopher, 13 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 802 Founding of the Khmer Empire — aged 1, Asia
- 843 Treaty of Verdun — aged 42, Europe
- c. 850 Prambanan — aged 49, Asia
- 859 Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin — aged 58, Africa
- c. 862 Calling of the Varangians — aged 61, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 868 The Diamond Sutra is printed — aged 67, Asia