Why do we read Arab philosophers? , authored by: Ali bin Makhlouf

This book aims to show that Arab philosophy as it appeared from the eighth century to the fifteenth century is an integral part of the intellectual history of humanity. And the very ignorance that testifies to the success of the transfer of Arab philosophy to the European world: today we use arguments from medieval Arab philosophy without knowing that they were formulated about ten centuries ago in a world extending from Córdoba to Baghdad. And we can take as an example the distinction between essence and existence that runs through classical philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which was shaped by the tenth-century philosopher, Ibn Sina, when he was reading Aristotle's metaphysics. Number of pages: 231