TY  - JOUR
T1  - Greek Philosophy: Christian and Muslim Philosophers’ 
  Apologia for its Enquiry
AU - Omar, Mohd Nasir 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
SP  - 398
EP  - 403
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2013.398.403
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2013.398.403
KW  - Miskawayh
KW  -Yahya Ibn `Adi
KW  -Greek philosophy
KW  -apologia
KW  -Christian
KW  -Muslim
AB  - In the East, Greek sciences and philosophy was studied as 
  early as the 4th century, not however by the Arab Muslims but by the Arab Syrian 
  Christians. Numerous Greek treatises on theology, philosophy and logic were 
  definitely part of their syllabus of learning. Thus, borrowing the words of 
  De Boer in 1970, the Syrians, it is true, produced nothing original but their 
  activity as translators was of advantage to Arab-Persian science. It was Syrian 
  Christians who brought wine, silk and other precious items to the West. But, 
  it was the Syrians also who cultivated Greek sciences for many centuries before 
  they eventually transmitted them to the Muslim philosophers, especially in the 
  10th and 11th century Baghdad. Among great philosophers who flourished in Baghdad 
  at such times were such men as Yahya Ibn ‘Adi 
  (d. 974) and Miskawayh (d. 1030). The 1st was Christian while the 2nd was the 
  Muslim. This study, thus seeks to investigate their responses to Greek sciences 
  and philosophy which eventually led them towards the acceptance of Greek thought 
  and also towards the need for an apologetic on behalf of philosophical study 
  and on the relations between philosophy and the divine revelation.
ER  -