The History of the Baghdad School

Ih ibn Adi is still fighting the same battle, writing apologetic works in Arabic that use Aristotelian philosophical ideas to defend Monophysite Christianity and criticize Nestorianism. Another example of someone who fused philosophical and theological activity into one career was Abu Faraj Ibn Adi'ib; he died a few years after Avicenna did. The most famous single event associated with the Baghdad school once again highlights the tensions that could exist between members of different faiths at this time.