Abstract

Al-Kindi's theology can be said to have positioned him as one of the mostprominent of the Islamic Neoplatonism philosophers, who emphasises on theFirst Truth in His transcendent position, not His Creative aspect.Nevertheless, it can be said that his philosophy has been influenced mainlyby the Aristotelian school. According to Al-Kindi, the ‘True One’ is neithersoul nor intellect, because the unity of the True One is one neither throughform nor genus. It is responsible for the unity which exists in all beingstogether with multiplicity. As the cause of the unity of all being, the TrueOne is responsible for the continuing process of the universe. Al-Kindi'stheology is based on the impossibility of any sort of infinity other than theFirst Truth, emphasising the accidental nature of all entities, which isopposed to essential unity. Al-Kindi, being influenced by Neoplatonism,ignores the world of intelligible entities and shifts his focus from the worldof caused unity to the unified Being, such that the relation of God to theworld revolves around the words ‘unity’, ‘being’, ‘emanation’ , wahdah,huwiyah and fayd. The fact is that by instilling a new ground of doubtbetween the philosophers and theologians, Al-Kindi has acquired a uniqueposition in the history of Islamic philosophy.Al-Kindi, otherwise known as Yaqub Ibn Ishaq Ibn Sabah Al-Kindi AbuYusuf or Alkindus , has been known as a ‘committed philosopher’in his attempts to define the commitment of the philosopher in ‘attaining thetruth’. As a philosopher who believes that philosophy can answer thequestion of religion, he is, according to some literature, the first 'Islamicphilosopher'.By making a causal relationship between existence and truth, AL-Kindistates that “the First Truth is the cause of all truth”1