From the [[ninth century]] onward, owing to [[Caliph]] [[al-Ma'mun]] and his successor, Greek philosophy was introduced among the [[Persians]] and [[Arab]]s, and the [[Peripatetic]] school began to find able representatives among them; such were [[Al-Kindi]], [[Al-Farabi]], [[Ibn Sina]] ([[Avicenna]]), and [[Ibn Rushd]] (Averroës), all of whose fundamental principles were considered as criticized by the Mutakallamin. | From the [[ninth century]] onward, owing to [[Caliph]] [[al-Ma'mun]] and his successor, Greek philosophy was introduced among the [[Persians]] and [[Arab]]s, and the [[Peripatetic]] school began to find able representatives among them; such were [[Al-Kindi]], [[Al-Farabi]], [[Ibn Sina]] ([[Avicenna]]), and [[Ibn Rushd]] (Averroës), all of whose fundamental principles were considered as criticized by the Mutakallamin. |