Abstracts Psychology

Al-Kindi on Psychology.

by Redmond Gerard. Fitzmaurice

This thesis is an examination of the extant psychological treatises of Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, the ninth century A.D. Arab scholar who was among the first of his race to interest himself in strictly philosophical questions. Al-Kindi's writings were among the first fruits of the translation of Greek philosophical and scientific works into Arabic. It is under that aspect that this thesis approaches his views on soul and intellect - as an instance of the passage of Greek philosophical ideas to the Muslim Arabs. [...]