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...

The purpose of presenting review was to share the medicinal and surgical contribution of Greco-Arabic Muslim scientists in diagnosis, surgery and natural medicines for the management and treatment of urolithiasis. The contribution of Al-Antaki, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Baitar, Al-Bokhari, Al-Razi, Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Zuhr was highlighted. The data compilation was preliminary and much more efforts ...

The authors regret that there is a mistake in the university name in one of the author’s affiliation. It is written over the article as ‘‘Al-ImamMuhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University’’. The correct one is as follows: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Al ImamMohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), P.O. BOX 90950, 11623 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The authors ...

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...

Laboratoire de Biologie et Santé, Unité de recherche Associée au CNRST-URAC 34, Faculté des Sciences Ben M'Sik, Université Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Maroc, Laboratoire d'Immunologie Clinique, Inflammation et Allergie, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Maroc, Département de Pédiatrie 1, Hôpital d'Enfants de Rabat, CHU Ibn Sina, Rabat, Maroc, Département ...

In the modern medical era sudden cardiac death and its causes among athletes have been described. Finding appropriate preventive ways from this tragic event is so important in sports medicine. According to different trials and observations, there are numerous reasons and some preventive strategies. Historically, sudden cardiac death among athletes had been described several hundred years ago by...

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...

We present new spectroscopic and photometric data of the Type Ibn supernovae 2006jc, 2000er and 2002ao. We discuss the general properties of this recently proposed supernova family, which also includes SN 1999cq. The early-time monitoring of SN 2000er traces the evolution of this class of objects during the first few days after the shock breakout. An overall similarity in the photometric and sp...