 Virtually all Arabic-speaking philosophers adopted Aristotle’s account of place as the limit of a containing body, and so the challenge was to explain whether the universe as a whole has a place and in what sense it can be said to move. There were two approaches to this issue: one was to deny that the universe had a place and then explain in what sense it could be said to move, while the other was to assert that the universe has a place and then show how its having a place is consistent with Aristotle’s definition of place. Avicenna) represents the first approach, whereas Ibn Bājja and Averroes (and it would also seem al-Fārābī) took the second approach.