CONTENTSCHAP.PAGEForewordvContentsviiiIThe Syriac Version of Hellenism1IIThe Arab Period56IIIThe Coming of the `Abbasids89IVThe Translators105VThe Mu`tazilites123VIThe Eastern Philosophers135VIISufism181VIIIOrthodox Scholasticism208IXThe Western Philosophy226XThe Jewish Transmittors261XIInfluence of the Arabic Philosophers on Latin Scholasticism275Concluding Paragraph295Chronological Table296Transcriber’s Note