ABSTRACT
Avicenna Islamic philosophy has seemed to essentially a response to the challenge that reached the Muslim world from Greece. Culturally one of the creators of the Persian Renaissance in the tenth century, in the field of philosophy Avicenna was the culmination of that momentous movement that started with Kindi and his early associates, and, propagated in the happiest manner by the conscientious and painstaking translators. The system owed much to his predecessors whether Greek, Hellenistic or Muslim; but he gave to his successors in the East as well as in the West far more than Avicenna had ever received. For the Muslims it was a grave issue; and philosophy continuously competed or collided with religious teachings. Essentially a metaphysician, but one who made good use of logic, primarily an Aristotelian who took a great deal from Plato and Neo-Platonism, he had to produce a system because that was the only way to bring about his synthesis.
