ABSTRACT
First there was the pioneering Philosopher of the Arabs, al-Kindi; next the failasuf al-Farabi who melded Greek thought with a more Arabic and Islamic frame of mind; and third came Ibn Sina, a philosopher who absorbed influences from many intellectual trends and synthesized them into a new world view. Ibn Sina had the fortune to be born in Bukhara during “interesting times” which led to his fleeing ever westward in a search for political security and royal patronage.
