The Importance of Avocenna

Avocenna in part because he was so important is a philosopher who was not just influential but was often misread and well appropriated let's say in various ways. I guess one cost that philosophers pay for being influential though is that the later authors can sort of do whatever they want with them right there dead. But among the intellectuals in all traditions within Islam I don't think there was any doubt as to what it is that he had done. The European scholars in subsequent centuries especially in the 19th century were prone to very much see Avissana as an oriental in mystical terms.