 As to the master of the Peripatetics, Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) himself, the consensus of scholars is that Avicenna was a rationalist who embraced certain concepts from Plato, Aristotle and Neoplatonism and that the salient feature of his philosophical writings are discursive in nature. From here on, there are generally two distinct interpretations of Avicennan philosophy: Those who see him only as a rationalist who had nothing to do with mysticism and those who argue that later Avicenna had embraced mysticism as is reflected in some of his later works.