The Influence of Aristotle Thought in Islamic and Jewish Medieval Philosophy. A Case Study: Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides). Held in the scientific conference "Aristotle 2400 Years", State University of Tirana (2016)

Aristotle is a thinker with a wide influence in both Eastern and Western Philosophy. Being an untreated issue in the Albanian academic environment and at this direction a challenge and novelty, this paper aims to offer a comparative approach between the thinkers taken in this study, to highlight the influence of Aristotelian thought in the philosophical system of Avicenna and Maimonides and at the end to expound the essential contribution of each thinker. The paper is structured in three sections: The first section explains the reasons why we have chosen these thinkers and gives a short historical introduction to how manner in which Greek thought was assimilated into the Arabic and Jewish world. In the second section, we trace Aristotle’s influence and offer a comparative analysis of the thinkers and their mental approach in fields of study like Metaphysics, Logic, Ontology, Ethics etc. The last section of this study summarizes the importance of these ideas in Arabic & Jewish cultural contexts and some ending conclusions around them.