“Arabic philosophy was not Islamic in inspiration. It was born out of a desire o

—“Arabic philosophy was not Islamic in inspiration. It was born out of a desire on the part of people living under the subjugation of Islam to translate the classic texts of Greek philosophy. Most of its proponents were not Arabs. In fact: from about the eighth or ninth century A.D. till about the fifteenth some of the greatest Mohammedan theologians, historians, philosophers, grammarians, lexicographers, and philologists, who wrote in Arabic, were of Persian origin.”—