 In their interpretations of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics and in philosophical thinking generally, the medieval schools were much influenced by Muslim and Jewish thinkers. This was not true, however, in political philosophy. By some accident of transmission, the Islamic world does not seem to have known Aristotle’s Politics, but the Muslims did become acquainted with Plato’s Republic—which, however, was not translated into Latin during the middle ages. In Arabic there was a good deal of political philosophy showing the influence of Plato (for some information, see the entry on  Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy),[37]  but it had little or no influence over political philosophy in medieval Europe.