 The attitude to the search for happiness in the intellectual life (see Endress 2014) and the endeavour to rely on the heritage of the Ancients as a guidance in search of the “science of the things in their truth (ʿilm al-ashyaʿi bi-haqa’iqiha)” and personal achievement bridges the gap between the beginnings of falsafa in the age of al-Kindi and the developments of the Muslim West, when Averroes would conceive his project of commenting upon the Aristotelian corpus (Endress 1998; 2004).