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Aristotle has been involved with Christian philosophy since the early church fathers such as John of Damascus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_Aristotle

This was all official dogma and part of the religious canon throughout the Byzantine empire. To say Islamic philosophy lead to the influence of Aristotle in Christianity simply isn't true. You've already admitted as much by saying that Nestorian Christianity was heavily Aristotelian. However that is not to say that later Islamic commentaries were not considered very useful. It's the unfortunate influence of Aquinas that lead to the later Aristotle fetish in the west.

Read all about it here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/

Also http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/07/hyping_islam...




Between calling the influence of Aristotle a "fetish" and your clearly biased source saying "Islamic philosophy is a misnomer," I'm done.


Everything I've listed and said is factual. It is you who are in fact biased not me.




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