This paper explores the context of a Hermetic frame story in the pseudepigraphical alchemical treatise The Book of the Ziziphus Tree of the Furthest Boundary (Kitāb Sidrat almuntahā). The treatise is attributed to a prominent figure in the Arabic occult sciences, Abū Bakr b. Waḥshīya (fl. first half of the 4th/10th century). It was written in the form of a dialogue between the protagonist, Ibn Waḥshīya, and an alchemist from the Islamic West, al-Maghribī al-Qamarī. The last section of the introductory dialogue between these two characters consists of a frame story on the origins of alchemy and a legend of discovery (Fundlegende) that introduces a cosmogony and an allegorical depiction of the process of transmutation. Both the frame story an...
The Kitāb aḫbār al-Nūba, written in the last quarter of the tenth century, and the History of church...
El Liber de crepusculis de Gerardo de Cremona (1114-1187) es la versión lati-na de un texto perdido ...
Existen multitud de ejemplos de cómo la producción intelectual andalusí se ha extendido en el espaci...
In the Islamic period, Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15-100 CE) was well known both as “Lord of the Talism...
Arabo-Islamic alchemy enjoyed considerable popularity until well into the 19th and 20th centuries. I...
An alchemical Arabic treatise alternatively entitled Miftāḥ al-ḥikma, Miftāḥ jannāt al-khuld, Sirr a...
Sīmiyā' is an Arabic word that uses to be translated as 'white magic' or 'natural magic'. In fact, t...
The main source on Ibn Masarra’s thought before 1972 was Ibn Ḥazm, who briefly described some key el...
Tasyīr or “prorogation”, is an astrological procedure with which the astrologer moves, in an imagina...
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (368/978-463/1071), one of the most outstanding Andalusi legal scholars of the 5th/...
This article examines how Abū al-Faraj Hārūn identified, translated, and interpreted the ancient bi...
[RESUMEN]: El tasyīr o «prorrogación» es un procedimiento astrológico por el que se hace avanzar de ...
Además de la lista clásica de las cuatro Maravillas del Mundo en la tradición árabe medieval, la men...
The philosophical treatise known as Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq is generally ascribed to the 12th century Andal...
El tema picaresco gozó de una larga tradición en la literatura árabe. Tras un breve repaso histórico...
The Kitāb aḫbār al-Nūba, written in the last quarter of the tenth century, and the History of church...
El Liber de crepusculis de Gerardo de Cremona (1114-1187) es la versión lati-na de un texto perdido ...
Existen multitud de ejemplos de cómo la producción intelectual andalusí se ha extendido en el espaci...
In the Islamic period, Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15-100 CE) was well known both as “Lord of the Talism...
Arabo-Islamic alchemy enjoyed considerable popularity until well into the 19th and 20th centuries. I...
An alchemical Arabic treatise alternatively entitled Miftāḥ al-ḥikma, Miftāḥ jannāt al-khuld, Sirr a...
Sīmiyā' is an Arabic word that uses to be translated as 'white magic' or 'natural magic'. In fact, t...
The main source on Ibn Masarra’s thought before 1972 was Ibn Ḥazm, who briefly described some key el...
Tasyīr or “prorogation”, is an astrological procedure with which the astrologer moves, in an imagina...
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (368/978-463/1071), one of the most outstanding Andalusi legal scholars of the 5th/...
This article examines how Abū al-Faraj Hārūn identified, translated, and interpreted the ancient bi...
[RESUMEN]: El tasyīr o «prorrogación» es un procedimiento astrológico por el que se hace avanzar de ...
Además de la lista clásica de las cuatro Maravillas del Mundo en la tradición árabe medieval, la men...
The philosophical treatise known as Kitāb al-ḥadā’iq is generally ascribed to the 12th century Andal...
El tema picaresco gozó de una larga tradición en la literatura árabe. Tras un breve repaso histórico...
The Kitāb aḫbār al-Nūba, written in the last quarter of the tenth century, and the History of church...
El Liber de crepusculis de Gerardo de Cremona (1114-1187) es la versión lati-na de un texto perdido ...
Existen multitud de ejemplos de cómo la producción intelectual andalusí se ha extendido en el espaci...