In his hometown ‘Abd al-Latif made his first steps in philosophy studying al-Ghazali’s Intentions of the Philosophers, the Measure of Science in the Art of Logic, the Criterion of Action on Ethics and the Touchstone of Reasoning in Logic. Then he turned to Avicenna’s books including the Salvation, the Cure, the Canon, and the Validation by Bahmanyar, a pupil of Avicenna. Finally still in Baghdad he studied Indian mathematics, Euclid’s geometry, and many books on alchemy by Jabir ibn Hayyan, but then he abandoned this discipline which he considered an irrational practice.