The Importance of the Arabic Language in European Philosophy

Sicily is a special place. It, as Charles mentioned, has been taken by the Normans after a longer rule by Arabs. There was always an Arabic speaking community there and also influential people at the court who spoke Arabic. One of them was Michael Scott, a Scottish person who had traveled to Adalucia,. became a canon of Toledo, the old big center of translation. He translated in Italy a large number of texts and avaros in particular. And that's important for European philosophical history, the commentator on Aristotle.