And later...

And later, al-Farabi would become the focus of attacks directed against the "School of Baghdad". Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the End of Aristotelianism Averroes was one of the last representatives of a dying Farabian Aristotelianism. Averroes was aware of Alfarabi's attempts to make sense of the difficulties in Aristotle's texts. In one such area, the modal logic, Averroes was to return to the problems four times through his career.

Averroes' project is illustrated in his Philosophical Essays, a number of which…