Contents: Introduction: theater; oriental wisdom; Greek science; Philosophy and Arab Knowledge: grammatical science; ethical teaching; doctrinal systems; literature and history; Pythagorean Philosophy: natural philosophy; faithful brethren of Basra; Neo-Platonic Aristotelians of the east: Kindi; Farabi; Ibn Maskawaih; Ibn Sina; Ibn al-Haitham; Outcome of Philosophy in the East: Gasali; Epitomists; Philosophy in the West: beginnings; Ibn Baddja; Ibn Tofail; Ibn Roshd; Conclusion: Ibn Khaldun; Arabs and Scholasticism.