Excellent article — I strongly recommend that you read CK Raju: Is Science Western in Origin?. This explains why Islamic origins of Western ideas were concealed in early Western accounts, while later accounts simply followed. You can find it linked in my post on this topic https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/is-science-western-in-origin/
Doing some more research on this topic, I cam across the following paper: http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/difil/v18n31/0124-6127-difil-18-31-00015.pdf = I quote a passage from this paper below:
The most striking evidence of the historical influence of Al-Ghazali on Descartes was put forward by the Tunisian historian Othman Al-Kaa’k, who delivered a paper at the Tenth Annual Islamic Thought Forum in Tunisia in which he claimed to have visited the National Library in Paris and looked at the Cartesian Collection, where he found a Latin translation of ‘Al-Monqith,’ with comments written in Descartes’ handwriting: “this will be added to our method”1 (Al-Kaa’k 6). This piece of finding changed the course of literature on the subject indefinitely: V.V. Naumkin(124) and Catherine Wilson(1021–1023) based their studies on this historical proof.2 Albertini pushed this idea even harder to claim in a footnote that this finding “would … substantiate that Islamic thought has been able to inspire European philosophy well beyond the Middle Ages and the Renaissance