 The second part belongs to the already ancient tradition of judicial and cultural mathematics and joins a collection of little arithmetical problems presented in the form of poetical riddles

In 1480 the Christian forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, "The Catholic Monarchs", raided and often pillaged the city, al-Qalasādī himself served in the mountain citadels which were erected in the vicinity of Baza.al-Qalasādī eventually left his homeland and took refuge with his family in Béja, Tunisia, where he died in 1486.Baza was eventually besieged by the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella and its inhabitants sacked.