Böcker i Scientia Graeco-Arabica-serien

One of Averroes' (Ibn Rushd) earliest works is dedicated to law. The work comprises a summary of al-Ghazali's work on legal theory called al-Mustasfa min 'ilm al-usul. This volume presents a new edition of the Arabic text accompanied by a French translation and commentary. The edition is preceded by a study that draws attention to the main points of difference between the two philosophers.the two philosophers.

The series Scientia Graeco-Arabicais devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs it provides access to the topics of inquiry in which ancient science presented itself and developed over time in a continuous tradition between Antiquity and the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes. Languages of publication are English, German, French and Italian.

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.

Thabit ibn Qurra (826-901) was one of history's most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics.

Contains an English translation of an important medieval treatise on Aristotle's Metaphysics. This translation has been prepared on the basis of a wide range of documents including, apart from the available Arabic editions, various medieval manuscripts as well as a Latin translation prepared in the Renaissance.

"Avicenna's Metaphysics" (in Arabic "Ilahiyyat") is one of the most important metaphysical treatises after Aristotle. This title presents studies on its direct and indirect influence on Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin culture from the early 11th through the 16th century.

Contains the Greek translations of books II-IV of the "Conica of Apollonius of Perge". This book is arranged according to the same principle as the previous volume on book I: the critical edition of the Greek text is accompanied by numerous notes and a lexicon of all mathematical terms.

The first three books of the Conica deals with the basic elements of the theory of conical sections. Until recently these three books were only known from Eutocius' text. This volume provides a critical edition of the Arabic text, a translation of it into a modern language and a detailed historical and mathematical commentary.