The Restoration Of Grecian Philosophical Documents

The Preservation of Grecian Philosophical Documents Was an Important Islamic Contribution to Western Civilization Islamic preservation and translation of the Greek philosophical works of Aristotle, and Plato contributed to the flourishing of Western civilization. Under the direction of Islamic cultural patrons, they translated these vital texts from Greek into other languages. Such actions were significantly contributive to the revival and transmission of these pieces, bringing about their subsequent spread throughout Europe. Centuries of Islamic scholarship like this were crucial to the eventual emergence of the European Renaissance Period. The anterior exposure of the Arab world to Greek philosophy follows paths reaching back to the sixth century C.E. A common occurrence among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, were their interactions with Greek philosophy, and their attempts to reconcile their religious dogmas with the Greek philosophical known truths of reason; trying to marry faith with reason. Commonalities between their interactions produced a naturally occurring process of sharing respective religious and philosophical problems, and it is in the latter that Islamic philosophers deserve much credit from Judaism and Christianity, for the Abbasid caliphate’s deference to translation and preservation of key Aristotelian (and other) works long lost to the West. The irony of this sharing between religions remains that each was using the similar material to try and prove