 Although coverage of the different strands remains uneven, with Latin philosophy still most studied, work on Arabic philosophy increasing rapidly and the other areas still somewhat neglected, it is now widely recognized that medieval philosophizing in these different languages and countries should (though with some qualification) be seen as branches of a single tradition, going back to Greek antiquity and given coherence by a series of translation movements between the different languages. That is why this tradition (if it is called the “Western” tradition, “Western” must be understood much more broadly than usual) should be treated separately from the great achievements of philosophy from the same period in India, China, and  elsewhere.[2]