The Influence of Translations on Latin in Europe

The works of Aristotle were translated both from Arabic and from Greek eventually in the course of the 13th century. It was the Greek Latin translations which became used by Albertus, Maxx, Thomas Aquinas and so on. But it was always the Arabic commentators that were used to explain these Greek philosophical works. That's why you see so many quotations of Albert O'Rourke, Abasena, Al-Farrabi, Al-Kindian, and soon. In ethics, one could say metaphysics, natural philosophy, psychology are these areas where the influence of Arabic philosophy was particularly strong.