Abstract
An imposing number of studies on the history of astronomy in Muslim Spain has been produced by five generations of scholars at the University of Barcelona. The already prodigious José-María Millás Vallicrosa (1897–1970) was followed by the yet more diverse Juan Vernet (b. 1923), and their most distinguished pupil was Julio Samsó (b. 1942). It is Samsó who has spawned the impressive group of scholars of the fourth generation (Emilia Calvo, the late Mercè Comes, Miquel Forcada, Roser Puig and Mònica Rius), and with their help, now even a fifth generation. Between them they handled texts in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Old Castilian, and every aspect of the history of Andalusian astronomy and astrology was deemed worthy of their attention. International recognition of their achievements included the Koyré Medal of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science in 1995. One of their major achievements has been to put their journal Suhayl on the internet (www.ub.es/arab/suhayl/), thus assuring unrestricted access to the latest research on the history of science in Islamic civilization.
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