Who is the first philosopher in Islam /Arabic?
The first philosopher in Islam is Al-Kindi. He made Philosophy as a part of Islamic culture. He was the first to synthesize Neo-Platonic and Aristotelian with Islamic theology and laid the foundations of Muslim Philosophy. He went beyond mere translations of Greek philosophical ideas and formed a new philosophy that had a distinct Islamic flavor. If it is correct to say that as Descartes was the father of modern Philosophy, Al-Kindi was the father of Muslim Philosophy.
