HELLENISM IN ISLAM: The Infuence of Greek in Islamic Scientifc Tradition Pepen Irpan Fauzan PhD Student at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta ppnrpn@gmail.com Ahmad Khoirul Fata State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Sultan Amai Gorontalo cakfata@gmail.com Abstract The early Muslim society took much of the scientifc treasures from other civilizations, especially from ancient Greek. One of the scientifc traditions taken from Greek is Hellenism. Using a historical approach, this article tries to assess the contiguity of Islam with the Hellenism. There are three points will be discussed: When has Islam met to the Hellenism in frst time? What are the factors that support the scientifc contact between both of the civilizations? To what extent Hellenism infuenced the development of scientifc tradition in early Muslim community? Our study shows that the Muslims have known the Hellenistic tradition since the 7 th century in Ummayyad era, not the 8 th century as some scholars claim. Second, there are three factors underlying early Muslim studied Hellenism (1) Support from Qur’anic teachings, (2) The need to argue with both of other Muslim groups and Non-Muslims community, (3) The need of the Caliphs to legitimize their power. Third, when Muslims have known the Hellenism, they did not only adopt the Hellenism ideas, but also provide reviews, critical notes, and further more developed its own scientifc tradition combined with the qur’anic teachings. DOI: 10.21274/epis.2018.13.2.407-432