Aristotle and Aristotelianism - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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D'Ancona, Cristina
Leiden
Brill
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Aristotle , called the "First Teacher" by the Arab-Muslim philosophers ( falāsifa , sing. faylasūf , a loanword from φιλόσοφος), was widely known through translations from the Greek into Syriac and Arabic. His works inspired all the major exponents of falsafa (φιλοσοφία), and the influence of these works extended even to Islamic theology (kalām) . Besides the treatises of Aristotle himself, numerous commentaries from between the first century B.C.E. and the sixth century C.E. were translated, and these, too, contributed to shaping the profile of the Arabic Aristotle. Also of momentous