His aim in Egypt was to meet Yasin al-Simiya’i, a not well known alchemist, and Moses Maimonides, the famous Jewish philosopher, theologian, and doctor, born in Cordoba in 1135. ‘Abd al-Latif refused to work with the first for the senselessness of his teaching and found the latter excellent, but dominated by the desire to excel and to lend his services to men in command and of prominence. ‘Abd al-Latif’s encounter with the Peripatetic tradition took place in the vibrant cultural environment of Cairo where he met Abu al-Qasim al-Shari‘i, probably the renowned and famous master in the science of hadith Abu al-Qasim al-Busayri (d.1202), who had expert knowledge of the works of the “Ancients” and of those of Abu Nasr al-Farabi. In Cairo, for the first time ‘Abd al-Latif studied the books of the “Ancients”, namely Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Themistius, and on the basis of these he began to test the cogency of Avicenna’s doctrines. From this he came to hold the inferiority of the work of Avicenna. Nevertheless, ‘Abd al-Latif was intimately loath to renounce he who had been his master and the inspiration behind his research from his youth.