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Al-Kindi
Philosopher of the Arabs — 801–873 CE / Baghdad
The first Arab-Islamic philosopher with a deliberate project, using philosophy and logic to explain the sciences. He wrote on optics and cryptography — among the first to describe letter-frequency analysis for breaking ciphers — and on music and astronomy. The Latin translation school called Alkindus was influenced by him.