Rakesh’s Reviews > Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages > Status Update

“The translators asked themselves what the concepts they were putting into Latin meant in terms of their own beliefs—whether or not they could be harmonized with traditional Christian doctrines…This is where the Arab philosophers proved invaluable…They [as] monotheists…had already recognized and dealt with certain aspects of Aristotelian thinking that priests and monks were bound to find disturbing.”