An alchemical Arabic treatise alternatively entitled Miftāḥ al-ḥikma, Miftāḥ jannāt al-khuld, Sirr al-asrār and Sirr al-sārr wa-sirr al-asrār is attributed in its manuscripts to two different authors: al-Iznīqī and Jābir b. Ḥayyān. In this article I briefly discuss some characteristic aspects of the treatise and its significance for the history of alchemy. These aspects include its ancient and important sources, such as the Muṣḥaf al-jamā‛a (Turba philosophorum) and the Kitāb al-Ḥabīb, and its connection with the tradition of the artists and the activity of the workshop and laboratory, which first comes to the fore in Greek alchemy and later in Islamic alchemy. Furthermore, the work includes references to alchemical physical theories in whi...
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traduction anglaise Travis BruceGoverning Empire is a study, accompanied by a re-edition and a Frenc...
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (d. 1154 CE) wrote a critique on chapter V. 17 of al-Fārābī's commentary on the Almages...
La thèse traite d’une section de la plus grande somme philosophique d’Avicenne (Ibn Sīnā, m. 1037), ...
In the Islamic period, Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15-100 CE) was well known both as “Lord of the Talism...
This paper explores the context of a Hermetic frame story in the pseudepigraphical alchemical treati...
The main source on Ibn Masarra’s thought before 1972 was Ibn Ḥazm, who briefly described some key el...
The philosophical treatise known as Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq is generally ascribed to the 12th century Andal...
During the past century of oriental studies, the question of when and where Muslim traditions (ḥadīt...
Sīmiyā' is an Arabic word that uses to be translated as 'white magic' or 'natural magic'. In fact, t...
Arabo-Islamic alchemy enjoyed considerable popularity until well into the 19th and 20th centuries. I...
The article examines some aspects of the theoretical legacy of Abū ‘l-Ḥasan al-Māwardī, a medieval I...
This article examines how Abū al-Faraj Hārūn identified, translated, and interpreted the ancient bi...
This paper presents a unique manuscript copy of a fifth/eleventh-century Maghribī commentary on al-B...
The history of the terms ‘elixir’ and ‘alchemy’ seems paradoxical; derived from Greek, the Arabic al...
ABSTRACT: The principles of Ash’arī kalām, whose founder is Abu’l-Hasan al-Ash’arī, completed their ...
traduction anglaise Travis BruceGoverning Empire is a study, accompanied by a re-edition and a Frenc...
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (d. 1154 CE) wrote a critique on chapter V. 17 of al-Fārābī's commentary on the Almages...
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