Al-Kindī#Al
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#Al Kindi
Al-Kindī · c. 801–873 CE
In the books · 1 chapter
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“One man in ninth-century Baghdad argued Greek philosophy through the gates of a scriptural civilization — and along the way produced an argument for God's existence that people are still debating on stages today, and invented the technique that breaks secret codes.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Truth has no passport. Wisdom from foreign nations and past ages does not threaten a civilization's faith — it completes it, and we should be ashamed only of refusing it.”
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