Arabic Philosophy

Mayasaloon has written a good piece on philosophy: http://maysaloon.blogspot.com/2008/10/colonialism-in-philosophy.html To him I wrote: Truly written. Colonialism sought to intrude into countries where there was something of value to exploit.However, they have not yet allowed themselves to make use of Arabic philosophy. To keep interest low, they portrayed Arabic philosophy as you have described in your post. We are now at the very beginning of the time when Arabic philosophy will influence Western philosophy. Since the countries wherein Arabic philosophy resides are no longer under the control of colonialism, the West finds the ideas of Arabic philosophy not quite "pukka" enough for their consumption, and the process is marked by conflict.It will continue to be of interest. note: by "pukka" here, I mean the original idea of "under cooked"; i.e., "half-baked". "Half-baked" would seem to be the appropriate insult a westerner would use to scare people away from the forests of Arabic thought: sort of a "beware! there be dragons here!"