5 Sittings of an Open Study Circle on Two Epistles of Al-Kindi on Colour and Rays, with Danish Baloch. On Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, starting Wed 5 December 2018 – Wed 2 January 2019
Method of the Study Circle: Studying the way of the argumentation through which he develops his doctrine (Urdu).
Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi – of a royal south-Arab tribe of Kinda in Iraq –
a ninth century hakim – worked with a group of translators who rendered works of Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and Greek mathematicians and scientists into Arabic. Al-Kindi’s own treatises, many of them epistles, are on philosophical topics, cosmology, mathematics and the sciences.
Danish Baloch, a philosophy graduate, works and teaches at Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts. His interests include art, philosophy and mathematics.
REGISTER: Send Circle Title, Name of Participant, Email & Mobile Whatsapp Number on hast.o.neest@gmail.com, or 03008493170 (No charges.)
