The History of Philosophy in the Islamic World

The story of philosophy in the islamic world will be occupying us for about a year's worth of podcasts. Moslems like avicenna, averoes and jews like mimonides exerted great influence on christians such as alber the great or thomas aquinas. We need to cover philosophy in arabic before looking at philosophy in latin. A shift in mediaeval latin philosophy began in the twelfth century as a result of ideas flowing from theIslamic world.