6. Philosophy and Science in Andalusia: By Alfred Ivry, Departments of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University Philosophy and science in Andalusia, Muslim Spain, had its origins in the East, in the cultures of ninth and tenth centuries Syria, Iraq, and Persia. It was there, beginning in the new Abbasid capitol of Baghdad, and spreading from there throughout Dar al-Islam, the Islamic World, that much of the Greek scientific legacy of late antiquity was translated and them assimilated into Arabic culture. A new body of knowledge soon arose, alongside the traditional Muslim sciences. Click here for full text Get Adobe Acrobat Reader here