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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, is the author several books, including The Arabic Plotinus (2002) and Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi (2007) and Philosophy in the Islamic World (2016), and hosts the History of Philosophy podcast (https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/).Founded in Translation: From Greek to Syriac and ArabicGreek philosophy and science make their way into the Islamic world via Syriac and Arabic translations and interpretations.Further ReadingP. Adamson, The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the “Theology of Aristotle” (London: 2002).C. D’Ancona, Recherches sur le Liber de Causis (Paris: 1995).G. Endress and R. Kruk (eds), The Ancient Tradition in Christian and Islamic Hellenism (Leiden: 1997).D. Gutas, Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Society (2nd-4th / 8th-10th centuries) (London: 1998).D. Gutas, Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition (Aldershot: 2000).D. King, The Earliest Translation of Aristotle's Categories in Syriac (Leiden: 2010).F. Rosenthal, The Classical Heritage in Islam, trans. E. Marmorstein and J. Marmorstein (London: 1975).R. Walzer, Greek into Arabic: Essays on Islamic Philosophy (Oxford: 1962).J.W. Watt, “From Sergius to Matta: Commentary and Translation in Syriac Aristotelian and Monastic Tradition,” in J.W. Watt and J. Lössl (eds), Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity (Aldershot: 2011), 239-58.Stanford Encyclopedia: Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic PhilosophyIn Our Time: Translation Movement (interview with Peter, Peter Pormann, Amira Bennison)Philosopher's Zone: Greek Meets Arabic (Peter interviewed by the late Alan Saunders)