The Middle Ages · School
Islamic Peripatetics
Avicenna, Averroes and others commented on and extended Aristotle in the Islamic world; translated, their works reshaped Latin philosophy.
Representative figures · 3
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)阿维森纳（伊本·西那）
Giant of Islamic philosophy and medicine, who distinguished essence from existence, devised the 'flying man' thought experiment, and shaped Latin scholastic metaphysics.
Averroes (Ibn Rushd)阿威罗伊（伊本·鲁世德）
'The Commentator', who annotated the whole of Aristotle, defended the harmony of philosophy and religion, and set the University of Paris ablaze.
Maimonides迈蒙尼德
The greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, who reconciled the Torah with Aristotle in the Guide for the Perplexed.