The History of Philosophy in the Islamic World

In the eleventh century news travelled slow and texts often failed to travel at all. That is one reason we see a mostly autonomous tradition arising on the far western fringe of the islamic empire, in andalusia. Andalusian philosophy was influenced by avicenna but much less so than philosophy in the east. The greatest mind in the history of philosophical sufism, which became such a force in the eastern islamic world, was inarabi, and he too hailed from andalucia. To take account of all this, iam going to devote a series of episodes to andilusian philosophy, before returning to the eastern tradition and following it all the way