Medieval contempt for Islamic philosophy coexisted with massive intellectual debt to it.

Evidence

Mediaeval contempt for the Islamic world as unphilosophical contrasts strangely with our modern concept of the mediaeval Latin West as wholly indebted for its philosophy to the Islamic East. Even if the modern view is correct, we need not assume mediaeval hypocrisy, but just a lack of historical perspective. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1995

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader historiography debates about Islamic transmission of Greek philosophy to the Latin West — relevant to anyone working on intellectual history or cross-cultural knowledge transfer. — connects to: Renaissance scholarship long coexisted with unrevised medieval views of Islam.
• QUESTION: How exactly did Ricoldo and his milieu reconcile this apparent contradiction — and how complete was the Latin scholarly ignorance of the Arabic philosophical corpus at this date?