Meister Eckhart is regarded as a mystic and a master thinker of German mysticism. In his book, Kurt Flasch provides a historical introduction that places Meister Eckhart in a verifiable historical context. He traces Eckhart's engagement with authors he has read, commented on, and in some cases, personally known. This results in a nuanced picture, in which the Arab thinker Averroes occupies a surprisingly important position. This book alters the perception of Eckhart through new factual evidence. It does not construct a new tradition but reconstructs a documentable, dynamic philosophical discussion. The method employed is not intuition or association, but historical-philological proof. It becomes evident that, mediated through Albertus Magnus and Dietrich of Freiberg, the Arab philosopher Averroes plays a central role in Eckhart's thinking.