[The diseases yudam and baras (leprosy) in treatises of Islamic Law (Malikí Doctrine)]. / Las enfermedades yudam y baras (lepra) en los tratados de derecho islámico (doctrina Malikí).

Two diseases that appear in the legal treatises, yudam and baras, are semantically ambiguous and present difficulties when it comes to establishing their meaning. However, comparison of lexicographical and medical sources with modern bilingual and monolingual Arabic dictionaries bring us closer to the real meanings of the terms within the spacial and temporal contexts of the Maliki legal treatises. In these treatises, they appear as vitia redhibitoria in certain types of contract and also as diseases subject to regulations for the prevention of infection.