This short article is taken from the full article which is
available here as a PDF file We all know that the Medieval
Western world came to know and appreciate the basic Greek works
through the works of Muslim philosophers. The translation of the
Arabic versions of the Aristotelian corpus, the commentaries,
and the abridgments produced a cultural turning point in the
intellectual history of the Western world. We also know that the
serious study of Aristotle in the time of Scholasticism begins
with Albertus Magnus (1206-1280) who used Ibn Sînâ's
commentaries. Both Albert and his brilliant student St. Thomas
Aquinas who shaped the future of Christianity, adopted a version
of modified Aristotelianism, which was to a large extent Al-
Fârâbî's and especially Ibn Sînâ's version of Aristotelian
philosophy. When we have a serious look at the historical
studies carried out up to now, we can easily see, despite the
insufficiency of research, the deep influence of Al-Fârâbî and
Ibn Sînâ not only in the fields of logic or