Arthur V. Sagadeev. Oriental Peripatetism, Moscow: Mardjani Publishing House, 2009

A classical work of a famous Russian scholar Arthur V. Sagadeev (1931 - 1996) is a result of his about 50 years’ study of Classical Islamic Philosophy (falsafah).

The author presents a broad and accurate panorama of cultural interaction in the Mediterranean and the Middle East regions, where deep interrelation between Arab, Iranian, Hellenistic, Ancient Eastern cultures has resulted in formation of brilliant civilization of Mediaeval Islamic Epoch. Among others, this process has appeared in Arab Aristotelism of ‘Oriental Peripatetism’ represented by such names as al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd.

These thinkers adopted a vast inheritance of Ancient Greek thought and transformed it under the new circumstances of Mediaeval Islamic epoch.

Arthur V. Sagadeev. Oriental Peripatetism, Moscow: Mardjani Publishing House, 2009 ISBN 978-5-903715-06-0