Investigador
Catedrático
Universidad de Barcelona – Facultad de Filología y Comunicación
Sección de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos
Departament de Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica
Chapters in books (Forthcoming)
“Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi: Adab and the Rational Sciences”, in M. Meouak y C. de la Puente (eds), Connected Stories: Transmissions of Knowledge between East and West in the Pre-Modern Islamic World“, Nueva York: De Gruyter (ca. 23 pp.).
“Scholarly Communities Devoted to the Sciences in al-Andalus”, in S. Brentjes (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Scientific Practices in Islamicate Societies (8th-19th centuries), Londres: Routledge (ca. 20 pp.)
“Before and after Ibn Rushd: Physicians-Philosophers in the Service of Power in al-Andalus between the 6th/12th and the 8th/14th Centuries”, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, London-Boston: de Gruyter (ca. 33 pp).
Selected publications (last ten years)
2020-21a: “Didactic poems on medicine and their commentaries in medieval al-Andalus and Western Islam». Suhayl 18, 165-204
2020b: “Bronze and Gold Al-Fārābī on Medicine”, Oriens 48, 367–415
2020c: “De Alejandría a Córdoba: la medicina según Ibn Rushd y la tradición araboislámica”, Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia 72/2, 1-15
2020d: “Granada safarī e higo dunniqāl: la transmisión de nombres y especies in al-Andalus”, Panace@. Revista de Medicina, Lenguaje y Traducción, 20, 42-55
2019a: “The Garden in Umayyad Society in al-Andalus”, Early Medieval Europe 27, 349-373.
2019b [in press]: “The garden in Umayyad society in al-Andalus”, Early Medieval Europe
2019c: ”Saphaeae and Hay’āt: the Debate between Instrumentalism and Realism in Al-Andalus”, in Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech (eds.), Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 262-285 [new ed. 2017a]
2019d: “The reception of Galen after Ibn Sīnā (11th-12th centuries), in P. Bouras Vallianatos and B. Zipser (eds.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen, Leiden: Brill, 227-243
2017a: “Saphaeae and Hay’āt: the Debate between Instrumentalism and Realism in Al-Andalus”, Medieval Encounters, 23, 1-27.
2017b: “Books from Abroad: the Evolution of Science and Philosophy in Umayyad Al-Andalus”, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 5, 55–85.
2015: “Astrology in al-Andalus during the 11th and 12th Centuries: Between Religion and Philosophy”, in Ch. Burnett and D. Greenbaum (eds.), From Masha’allah to Kepler: The Theory and Practice of Astrology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Ceredigion (Wales), 149-176.
2014a: “Ibn Bājja on Taṣdīq and Taṣawwur”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 24, 103-126.
2014b: Ibn Bājja’s Discourse on Cosmology (Kalām fī l-Hay’a) and the “Revolt” against Ptolemy, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 20-21, 63-167
2014c: (with Theo Loinaz): “Farmacología y método: las notas de Ibn Bāŷŷa a De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus (Tacālīq fī l-adwiyat al-mufrada)”, in Expiración García Sánchez (ed.), Ciencias de la Naturaleza en al-Andalus. Textos y Estudios, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, 31-112.
2012: “Salting Babies. Innovation and Tradition in Premodern Procedures for Neonatal Care”, Suhayl, 11, 155-178.
2011a: “Ibn Bājja on Medicine and Medical Experience”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 21, 111-148.
2011b: Ética e ideología de la ciencia: el médico filósofo en al-Andalus, Fundación Ibn Tufayl, Almería.
2011c: (with Julio Samsó), addenda et corrigenda to Julio Samsó’s Las ciencias de los antiguos en al-Andalus, Fundación Ibn Tufayl, Almería, pp. 452-572.