The Islamic Renaissance’s Influence on Philosophy

Islam had a significantly positive effect on the Western world.

An Islamic philosopher-scientist observing the comet of 1577. (Public Domain)

Philosophy as we know it today exists thanks to Islamic scholars who preserved the knowledge of the ancient Greeks. The Islamic world from present-day Spain in the west, to present-day Uzbekistan in the east, had had access to Aristotle going back to as early as the 800s CE…