Logic plays an important role in
Islamic philosophy.
Islamic law placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a novel approach to logic in
Kalam, but this approach was later displaced by ideas from
Greek philosophy and
Hellenistic philosophy with the rise of the
Mu'tazili philosophers, who highly valued
Aristotle's
Organon. The works of Hellenistic-influenced Islamic philosophers were crucial in the reception of Aristotelian logic in medieval Europe, along with the commentaries on the
Organon by
Averroes. The works of
al-Farabi,
Avicenna,
al-Ghazali and other Muslim logicians who often criticized and corrected Aristotelian logic and introduced their own forms of logic, also played a central role in the subsequent development of European logic during the
Renaissance.