The Influence of Scholars of the Islamic World on the Development of Philosophy and Science

The high ideal of demonstrative signs is something that Farabi somehow ends, I would think, and that gets transported with it into the west. We might even say that what was put down by Al-Farabi as a kind of theoretical description of the relationship of the sciences becomes a blueprint for the university curriculum in the west. The influence from scholars of the Islamic world on the development of philosophy and science more generally in the Latin using Christian world wasn't just that they wound up reading a very recent Al-Asena,. It was that they were actually having face-to-face communication with scholars and experts on the relevant topics so that their initial engagements with these topics would already have been shaped