The ancient Greek texts of Aristotle were very important for the intellectual development of Europe and were (in part) 'rediscovered' from Muslim/Arabic sources. How important was the Muslim commentary which was written about these texts?

by ProperPyramid

Like I said in the title. I know about the importance of Aristotle in the European science and philosophy and I know about Muslim commentary about these works.

Since it is pretty well know that they were at least in part copied from Muslim/Arabic sources, I was wondering if European scholars read the commentaries or if they just developed their own ideas? And if they read and maybe even learned from the Arabic commentators, I am curious about what ideas they maybe copied?

Thanks in advance to anybody considering the question (:

ParallelPain

While you wait for in-depth answers, this answer provided by /u/Xenophontheathenian in this thread, along with supplements by other flared users in the thread, might be of great interest to you.

A good example given is:

Nevertheless, their influence in reintroducing these texts to the medieval west cannot be understated. Moreover, the intellectual tradition derived from the work of Muslim scholars like Averroes is still felt in the discourse--so much of the opinion of Thomas Aquinas (who had never read Aristotle in Greek), for example, was based on what Averroes had said about him, and thus the influence is felt on later scholars.