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Research paper thumbnail of In memoriam: Mercè Comes Maymó (1949-2010)

Research paper thumbnail of De Alejandría a Córdoba: la Medicina según Ibn Rushd y la tradición araboislámica

Asclepio, 2020

Ibn Rushd consideró la medicina como un arte productivo en su al-Kulliyyāt fī l-ṭibb, escrito ent... more Ibn Rushd consideró la medicina como un arte productivo en su al-Kulliyyāt fī l-ṭibb, escrito entre 1162 y 1169, y como una ciencia en su comentario al poema de Ibn Sīnā sobre la medicina (Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā fī l-ṭibb), escrito en 1180. En Kulliyyāt, Ibn Rushd sigue de manera bastante estricta las ideas sobre el estatus de la medicina del filósofo al-Fārābī. En Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā, Ibn Rushd sintetiza las concepciones de varias obras, entre las cuales Masā’il fī l-ṭibb de Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq y Ḥubaysh, Qānūn fī l-ṭibb de Ibn Sinā y las obras sobre la lógica aristotélica de al-Fārābī. El análisis conjunto de estas fuentes, más las aportaciones de un nuevo manuscrito de Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā, proporcionan una idea más clara de la concepción de la medicina expuesta en esta obra y, en consecuencia, podemos reconsiderar y relativizar la diferencia entre esta concepción y la que se expone en Kulliyyāt. Las ideas de Ibn Rushd sobre el estatus de la medicina se analizan de acuerdo con ...

Research paper thumbnail of Astronomy in tenth-century Islamic encyclopaedism

Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2016

![Research paper thumbnail of Esquemes dombres per determinar el moment de les pregàries en llibres dAnwa i calendaris d`al-Ándalus](https://a.academia-assets.com/images/blank-paper.jpg)

Actes De Les I Trobades D Historia De La Ciencia I De La Tecnica Trobades Cientifiques De La Mediterrania 1994 Isbn 84 7283 269 4 Pags 107 118, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Salting Babies. Innovation and Tradition in Premodern Procedures for Neonatal Care

Suhayl International Journal For the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation, 2012

The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieva... more The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieval medicine: the application of salt to the newborn's skin in order to harden it, and the alternative proposed by Ibn Zuhr, anointment with acorn oil. The latter procedure was echoed by several physicians in al-Andalus and was known to the physicians of the Renaissance, some of whom preferred it to all other methods. Ibn Zuhr's anointment with acorn oil is analyzed as a case study that broadens our knowledge of the innovative character of this author, one of the outstanding physicians in the history of al-Andalus medicine, and of the doctrinal change and its transmission in Pre-Modern medicine. The paper sketches the history of the application of salt in newborns, a practice still in use at present time, from its early antecedents in the Semitic cultures to Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, studying in particular the main sources of neonatal care in Greek and Arabo-Islamic medicine. Another ancestral procedure for the same purpose, rubbing with henna, and the interaction between learned and folk medicine are also considered within the framework of the discussion of whether salt or acorn oil was better for newborns.

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn al-Aҁlam:ҁAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn Abū al-Qāsim al-ҁAlawī al-Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn Ṭufayl: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ҁAbd al‐Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al‐Qays&#x12b

Research paper thumbnail of Joan Vernet (1923-2011) y la luz de Oriente y Occidente

Quaderns de la Mediterrània= Cuadernos del …, 2011

... Joan Vernet (1923-2011) y la luz de Oriente y Occidente. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localizació... more ... Joan Vernet (1923-2011) y la luz de Oriente y Occidente. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localización: Quaderns de la Mediterrània = Cuadernos del Mediterráneo, ISSN 1577-9297, Nº. 16, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ecologia i cultura) , págs. 326-329. Fundación Dialnet. ...

Research paper thumbnail of La «ideología» de la ciencia araboislámica y Ramon Llull

Quaderns de la Mediterrània= Cuadernos del …, 2008

La ciencia musulmana tuvo una gran importancia entre los siglos X y XIV, gracias sobre todo a los... more La ciencia musulmana tuvo una gran importancia entre los siglos X y XIV, gracias sobre todo a los sabios andalusíes y magrebíes, que en la época de Llull estaban considerados como los máximos exponentes de varias disciplinas, como la astronomía, las ...

Research paper thumbnail of Averroes, el pensamiento de al-Andalus

Historia 16, 1998

Seleccionar todos Título: Averroes, el pensamiento de al-Andalus Autores: Forcada, Miquel; Puig M... more Seleccionar todos Título: Averroes, el pensamiento de al-Andalus Autores: Forcada, Miquel; Puig Montada, Josep Revista: Historia 16, 1998 DIC; 12 (272) Página(s): 42-51 ISSN: 02106353. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Les sources andalouses du Calendrier d'Ibn al Banna'de Marrakesh

Actas del II Coloquio Hispano‐Marroquí de Ciencias …, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Ralbag’s Rules and Reasoning: The Transmission of Post-Ptolemaic Astronomy through Mediaeval Europe

Metascience, 2009

This book offers a splendid collection of articles on the transmission of Mediaeval science. It e... more This book offers a splendid collection of articles on the transmission of Mediaeval science. It explores in depth the interesting subject of the exchange of knowledge between the Arab culture and Mediaeval Europe via Jewish intermediaries. The book presents a series of studies grounded on textual evidence, accurate analysis, and, in most cases, editions and translations of the texts under survey. The core of the collection is a section of five papers on Levi ben Gerson/Gersonides (1288-1344), which may be read, to a large extent, as a monograph on the astronomical works translated into Latin of one of the most original astronomers of the Late Middle Ages. This section may be considered, on the one hand, as an essential complement to the studies of Gersonides' astronomy published by many scholars, especially Goldstein, and on the other, as a follow-up to the research on Gersonides carried out as the 700th anniversary of his birth approached [cf. G. Dahan (ed.), Gersonide en son temps (1991) and G. Freudenthal (ed.), Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (1992)]. The first study in the section on Gersonides, entitled ÔThe Latin translation of Levi ben Gerson's Astronomy', is Mancha's contribution to the latter book. This article, together with ÔLevi ben Gerson's Astronomical Work: Chronology and Christian Context', describes for the first time the main features of the translation of Gersonides's astronomy into Latin, which is only a part of his

Research paper thumbnail of L'Expression du Cycle Lunaire dans L'Ethnoastronomie Arabe

Arabica, 2000

... 'Umar al-Zahid (m ... gurra) et gurr (sing. aqgarr/garrd&amp... more ... 'Umar al-Zahid (m ... gurra) et gurr (sing. aqgarr/garrd') [Qutrub (premiere liste), Farra' (premiere liste), Ibn al-Sikkit et Ibn 'Asim donnent les deux mots; la deuxieme liste de Farra' et la deuxieme liste anonyme d'Abui 'Umar al-Zahid seulement gurr. Dans le reste des sources, gurar] ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn Bājja on Taṣawwur and Taṣdīq: Science and Psychology

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 2014

As is well known,taṣawwurandtaṣdīq,conceptualization and assent, are essential notions in the epi... more As is well known,taṣawwurandtaṣdīq,conceptualization and assent, are essential notions in the epistemology of Arabo-Islamic philosophy. Conceptualization amounts to the definition of an object of knowledge, and assent to the recognition,viasome kind of reasoning, that this definition is true. One of the authors who dealt with both topics in greatest depth was al-Fārābī, whoseoeuvreexerted a profound influence on Ibn Bājja. This article analyzes the materials ontaṣawwurandtaṣdīqfound in Ibn Bājja's notes regarding al-Fārābī's writings on logic and scientific method, namely the glosses toKitāb al-Burhān. The analysis shows, on the one hand, that he understood perfectly the importance of both terms in al-Fārābī's construal of Aristotle's scientific method; and on the other, that he used them to deal with human thought processes. Indeed, conceptualization and assent were essential notions for Ibn Bājja, and underlie some of his best-known works.

Research paper thumbnail of The “Ideology” of Arab-Islamic Science and Ramon Llull

Research paper thumbnail of Sa'id al-Bagdadi y los antecedentes de la agronomía andalusi

Al-qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, 1995

... Sa'id al-Bagdadi y los antecedentes de la agronomía andalusí. Autores: Miquel Forcada; L... more ... Sa'id al-Bagdadi y los antecedentes de la agronomía andalusí. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localización: Al-qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, ISSN 0211-3589, Vol. 16, Fasc. 1, 1995 , págs. 163-172. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

Research paper thumbnail of A New Andalusian Historical Source from the Fourth/Tenth Century: the Mukhtasar min al-anwa of Ahmad ibn Faris

Anuari de filologia. Secció B, Estudis àrabs i …, 1996

... A New Andalusian Historical Source from the Fourth/Tenth Century: the Mukhtasar min al-anwa o... more ... A New Andalusian Historical Source from the Fourth/Tenth Century: the Mukhtasar min al-anwa of Ahmad ibn Faris. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localización: Anuari de filologia. Secció B, Estudis àrabs i islàmics, ISSN 1576-012X, Nº. 2, 1996 , págs. 769-780. Fundación Dialnet. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn Bājja: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣā’igh al-Tujībī al-Andalusī al-Saraqusṭī

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review

Historia Mathematica, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of “Salting Babies. Innovation and Tradition in Premodern Procedures for Neonatal Care”,

The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieva... more The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieval medicine: the application of salt to the newborn's skin in order to harden it, and the alternative proposed by Ibn

Research paper thumbnail of In memoriam: Mercè Comes Maymó (1949-2010)

Research paper thumbnail of De Alejandría a Córdoba: la Medicina según Ibn Rushd y la tradición araboislámica

Asclepio, 2020

Ibn Rushd consideró la medicina como un arte productivo en su al-Kulliyyāt fī l-ṭibb, escrito ent... more Ibn Rushd consideró la medicina como un arte productivo en su al-Kulliyyāt fī l-ṭibb, escrito entre 1162 y 1169, y como una ciencia en su comentario al poema de Ibn Sīnā sobre la medicina (Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā fī l-ṭibb), escrito en 1180. En Kulliyyāt, Ibn Rushd sigue de manera bastante estricta las ideas sobre el estatus de la medicina del filósofo al-Fārābī. En Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā, Ibn Rushd sintetiza las concepciones de varias obras, entre las cuales Masā’il fī l-ṭibb de Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq y Ḥubaysh, Qānūn fī l-ṭibb de Ibn Sinā y las obras sobre la lógica aristotélica de al-Fārābī. El análisis conjunto de estas fuentes, más las aportaciones de un nuevo manuscrito de Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā, proporcionan una idea más clara de la concepción de la medicina expuesta en esta obra y, en consecuencia, podemos reconsiderar y relativizar la diferencia entre esta concepción y la que se expone en Kulliyyāt. Las ideas de Ibn Rushd sobre el estatus de la medicina se analizan de acuerdo con ...

Research paper thumbnail of Astronomy in tenth-century Islamic encyclopaedism

Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2016

![Research paper thumbnail of Esquemes dombres per determinar el moment de les pregàries en llibres dAnwa i calendaris d`al-Ándalus](https://a.academia-assets.com/images/blank-paper.jpg)

Actes De Les I Trobades D Historia De La Ciencia I De La Tecnica Trobades Cientifiques De La Mediterrania 1994 Isbn 84 7283 269 4 Pags 107 118, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Salting Babies. Innovation and Tradition in Premodern Procedures for Neonatal Care

Suhayl International Journal For the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation, 2012

The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieva... more The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieval medicine: the application of salt to the newborn's skin in order to harden it, and the alternative proposed by Ibn Zuhr, anointment with acorn oil. The latter procedure was echoed by several physicians in al-Andalus and was known to the physicians of the Renaissance, some of whom preferred it to all other methods. Ibn Zuhr's anointment with acorn oil is analyzed as a case study that broadens our knowledge of the innovative character of this author, one of the outstanding physicians in the history of al-Andalus medicine, and of the doctrinal change and its transmission in Pre-Modern medicine. The paper sketches the history of the application of salt in newborns, a practice still in use at present time, from its early antecedents in the Semitic cultures to Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, studying in particular the main sources of neonatal care in Greek and Arabo-Islamic medicine. Another ancestral procedure for the same purpose, rubbing with henna, and the interaction between learned and folk medicine are also considered within the framework of the discussion of whether salt or acorn oil was better for newborns.

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn al-Aҁlam:ҁAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn Abū al-Qāsim al-ҁAlawī al-Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn Ṭufayl: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ҁAbd al‐Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭufayl al‐Qays&#x12b

Research paper thumbnail of Joan Vernet (1923-2011) y la luz de Oriente y Occidente

Quaderns de la Mediterrània= Cuadernos del …, 2011

... Joan Vernet (1923-2011) y la luz de Oriente y Occidente. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localizació... more ... Joan Vernet (1923-2011) y la luz de Oriente y Occidente. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localización: Quaderns de la Mediterrània = Cuadernos del Mediterráneo, ISSN 1577-9297, Nº. 16, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ecologia i cultura) , págs. 326-329. Fundación Dialnet. ...

Research paper thumbnail of La «ideología» de la ciencia araboislámica y Ramon Llull

Quaderns de la Mediterrània= Cuadernos del …, 2008

La ciencia musulmana tuvo una gran importancia entre los siglos X y XIV, gracias sobre todo a los... more La ciencia musulmana tuvo una gran importancia entre los siglos X y XIV, gracias sobre todo a los sabios andalusíes y magrebíes, que en la época de Llull estaban considerados como los máximos exponentes de varias disciplinas, como la astronomía, las ...

Research paper thumbnail of Averroes, el pensamiento de al-Andalus

Historia 16, 1998

Seleccionar todos Título: Averroes, el pensamiento de al-Andalus Autores: Forcada, Miquel; Puig M... more Seleccionar todos Título: Averroes, el pensamiento de al-Andalus Autores: Forcada, Miquel; Puig Montada, Josep Revista: Historia 16, 1998 DIC; 12 (272) Página(s): 42-51 ISSN: 02106353. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Les sources andalouses du Calendrier d'Ibn al Banna'de Marrakesh

Actas del II Coloquio Hispano‐Marroquí de Ciencias …, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Ralbag’s Rules and Reasoning: The Transmission of Post-Ptolemaic Astronomy through Mediaeval Europe

Metascience, 2009

This book offers a splendid collection of articles on the transmission of Mediaeval science. It e... more This book offers a splendid collection of articles on the transmission of Mediaeval science. It explores in depth the interesting subject of the exchange of knowledge between the Arab culture and Mediaeval Europe via Jewish intermediaries. The book presents a series of studies grounded on textual evidence, accurate analysis, and, in most cases, editions and translations of the texts under survey. The core of the collection is a section of five papers on Levi ben Gerson/Gersonides (1288-1344), which may be read, to a large extent, as a monograph on the astronomical works translated into Latin of one of the most original astronomers of the Late Middle Ages. This section may be considered, on the one hand, as an essential complement to the studies of Gersonides' astronomy published by many scholars, especially Goldstein, and on the other, as a follow-up to the research on Gersonides carried out as the 700th anniversary of his birth approached [cf. G. Dahan (ed.), Gersonide en son temps (1991) and G. Freudenthal (ed.), Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (1992)]. The first study in the section on Gersonides, entitled ÔThe Latin translation of Levi ben Gerson's Astronomy', is Mancha's contribution to the latter book. This article, together with ÔLevi ben Gerson's Astronomical Work: Chronology and Christian Context', describes for the first time the main features of the translation of Gersonides's astronomy into Latin, which is only a part of his

Research paper thumbnail of L'Expression du Cycle Lunaire dans L'Ethnoastronomie Arabe

Arabica, 2000

... 'Umar al-Zahid (m ... gurra) et gurr (sing. aqgarr/garrd&amp... more ... 'Umar al-Zahid (m ... gurra) et gurr (sing. aqgarr/garrd') [Qutrub (premiere liste), Farra' (premiere liste), Ibn al-Sikkit et Ibn 'Asim donnent les deux mots; la deuxieme liste de Farra' et la deuxieme liste anonyme d'Abui 'Umar al-Zahid seulement gurr. Dans le reste des sources, gurar] ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn Bājja on Taṣawwur and Taṣdīq: Science and Psychology

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 2014

As is well known,taṣawwurandtaṣdīq,conceptualization and assent, are essential notions in the epi... more As is well known,taṣawwurandtaṣdīq,conceptualization and assent, are essential notions in the epistemology of Arabo-Islamic philosophy. Conceptualization amounts to the definition of an object of knowledge, and assent to the recognition,viasome kind of reasoning, that this definition is true. One of the authors who dealt with both topics in greatest depth was al-Fārābī, whoseoeuvreexerted a profound influence on Ibn Bājja. This article analyzes the materials ontaṣawwurandtaṣdīqfound in Ibn Bājja's notes regarding al-Fārābī's writings on logic and scientific method, namely the glosses toKitāb al-Burhān. The analysis shows, on the one hand, that he understood perfectly the importance of both terms in al-Fārābī's construal of Aristotle's scientific method; and on the other, that he used them to deal with human thought processes. Indeed, conceptualization and assent were essential notions for Ibn Bājja, and underlie some of his best-known works.

Research paper thumbnail of The “Ideology” of Arab-Islamic Science and Ramon Llull

Research paper thumbnail of Sa'id al-Bagdadi y los antecedentes de la agronomía andalusi

Al-qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, 1995

... Sa'id al-Bagdadi y los antecedentes de la agronomía andalusí. Autores: Miquel Forcada; L... more ... Sa'id al-Bagdadi y los antecedentes de la agronomía andalusí. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localización: Al-qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, ISSN 0211-3589, Vol. 16, Fasc. 1, 1995 , págs. 163-172. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

Research paper thumbnail of A New Andalusian Historical Source from the Fourth/Tenth Century: the Mukhtasar min al-anwa of Ahmad ibn Faris

Anuari de filologia. Secció B, Estudis àrabs i …, 1996

... A New Andalusian Historical Source from the Fourth/Tenth Century: the Mukhtasar min al-anwa o... more ... A New Andalusian Historical Source from the Fourth/Tenth Century: the Mukhtasar min al-anwa of Ahmad ibn Faris. Autores: Miquel Forcada; Localización: Anuari de filologia. Secció B, Estudis àrabs i islàmics, ISSN 1576-012X, Nº. 2, 1996 , págs. 769-780. Fundación Dialnet. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ibn Bājja: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣā’igh al-Tujībī al-Andalusī al-Saraqusṭī

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review

Historia Mathematica, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of “Salting Babies. Innovation and Tradition in Premodern Procedures for Neonatal Care”,

The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieva... more The paper studies two aspects of the procedures of neonatal care explained by ancient and medieval medicine: the application of salt to the newborn's skin in order to harden it, and the alternative proposed by Ibn