ABSTRACT
The main purpose of the following remarks is to remind the reader of a neglected outpost of classical scholarship. Though it is becoming better known, it still lacks recognition and its defenders remain more isolated than is good for them: there are too few cooperators and there is too little discussion and criticism. The days of Scaliger and Reiske who were both classicists and accomplished Arabists seem to have gone for ever, and hence most of the work which is based on Arabic texts is ignored outside the orientalist circle. It may, then, not be useless to mention a few questions connected with the importance which the study of Arabic philosophical texts may have at the present day for classical scholarship.
