This paper introduces a new way of representing bankruptcy rules. These representations are used to show that the minimal overlap rule is a composition of the Ibn Ezra rule and the constrained equal losses rule, a result originally obtained by [1]. The residual minimal overlap rule is analysed as an alternative extension of the Ibn Ezra rule, by using a composition with the constrained equal aw...

This work is the latest product of Albert Dietrich's investigations into the transmission and expansion of the Materia medica of Dioscorides in the medieval Islamic world; here he publishes, with German translation and commentary, a text by the renowned Andalusian physician Ibn Juljul (d. c. 384/994) describing 62 items not mentioned by Dioscorides. Such works were important contributions to th...

This is a study and translation of the section on pericarditis in Al Taisir book written by the Muslim physician Ibn Zuhr Avenzoar who lived and practiced in Eshbeelia nowadays Seville, Andalusia, Spain between 1091-1162 AD. Ibn Zuhr described the serous type of pericarditis as well as the pathological findings in fibrinous pericarditis. His description of the latter may also fit with the pictu...

This section 9.3 of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Qiyās is a commentary on sections 25 and 26 of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics i, pages 41b36–43a19. NB the parallel passage in Ibn Sı̄nā’s Burhān iii.2, p. 136ff (Badawi). The paper below is what Wikipedia would call a stub. I will add and correct as time allows. I make the paper available now because it contains a complete translation of Qiyās section 9.3, which is a...