The Impact of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics on the Ethical and Civil Heritage of Moslem Scholars

There was a close interaction between post-Islamic Iranian philosophy and that of Greece especially Platonic and Aristotelian trends of thought. Islamic Philosophy such as Farabi and Ibn Rushd were among the major interpreters and annotators of great Greek philosophers particularly Aristotle to the extent that Farabi was given the attribute of "Magister Secundus". A main topic of discussion among Moslem scholars was the great work of Aristotle, the Nichomachean Ethics, which was composed as precepts intended for the author's son Nichomachus. Its Arabic translation brought a great impact on the ethical and civil heritage of Islamic scholars, since there was some closeness between those precepts and the Islamic ones. This article discusses traces of this impact.