Kimiya- Alchemy

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Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (8th/9th cent).

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Affifi, A.E.

  • 1951 `The Influence of Hermetic Literature on Muslim Thought,'  Bulletin of thc School of Oriental and African Studies, 1951, 13, pt. 4, 840.

Ambix =  

  • Ambix. Being the Journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry. London I937 ff.

Berthelot, M. P. E.,

The previous standard, Collectzon des anciens alchimistes grecs, edited and translated by Marcellin,  P. E. Berthelot and Charles-Émile Ruelle, 3 vols. (1887-1888; reprint, Osnabrück, 1967), will be superseded by Les alchimistes grecs, 12 vols. (1981-)..." (E Rel).

  • III. L'alchimie arabe, comprenant une introduction historique et les traités de Cratès, d'el-Habib, d'Ostanès et de Djaber tir és des manuscrits de Paris et de Leyde. Texte et traduction.... Avec la collaboration de O. HOUDAS. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von I893, Osnabrück-Amsterdam I967.

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Brocklemann, C. [GALS]

  • Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur Suppkment. Leiden: 1937 (vol. I); 1938 (vol. II).

Burckhardt, T.,

  • 1960 Die Alchemie, Freiburg 1960; English trans. by W. Stoddart as Alchemy, Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, Baltimore, 1971.

Burnett, C. S. F.

  • 1986 "Arabic, Greek, and Latin Works on Astrological Magic Attributed to Aristotle" in Kraye, Ryan, and Schmitt eds. [1986].

H. Corbin.

  • 1950 "Le livre du glorieux de Jabir ibn ayyan," Eranos-Jahrbuch, 1950, 18, 47.

  • 1983 Cyclical Time and Ismal'ili Gnosis. London: 1983.

DSB = Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Ed.-in-Chief C. D. Gillispie. New York: 1970-80.

EI (1st ed.)

  • The Encyclopaedia of Islam, eds. M. T. Houtsma and T. W. Arnold. Leiden: 1913-38.

EI2 (2nd ed) The Enyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, eds. H. A. R Gibb, et al Leiden: 1954-

Enc. Rel. = Mircea Eliade (ed.) Encyclopedia of Religion. New York, 1987.

Eranos-Jahrbuch = Eranos-Jahrbuch, Zürich I933 ff.

Fuck, J.W

  • 1951    "The Arabic Literature on Alchemy According to An-Nadim (A.D. 987)," Ambix, 1951, 4, 34, 81.

Gorceix, Bernard,

  • 1980     Alchimie: Traites alemanaics du XVIe siècle .. Paris:?

Haq, Syed Nomanul.

  • 1994 Names, Natures and Things, The Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Ajār (Book of Stones). With a Foreword by David E. Pingree (Brown University) [= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 158] ed. Robert S. Cohen, Boston University. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht / Boston / London, 1994.

Holymyard, Eric. J.

  • 1922  "Jabir ibn Hayyan," Procecdings of the Royal Socicty of Medicine (Section on the History of Medicine), 1922, 16, 1, 46.

  • 1924   Maslama al-Majriti and the Rutbat al-Hakzm," Isis, 1924, 6, 293.

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  • 1924(a)  `A Critical Examination of Berthelot's Work upon Arabic Chemistry," Isis, 1924, 6, 479.

  • 1925     "The Present Position of the Geber Problem," Science Progress, 1925, 19, 415.

  • 1927    "An Essay on Jabir ibn Hayyan" in J. Ruska ed. [1927] .

  • ed. [1928]    `The Arabic Works of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, vol. I, Part 1 (Arabic Text). Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928.

  • 1955    "AIchemy in Medieval Islam," Endeavour, July, 1955, 117.

  • 1957  Alchemy. London: 1957.

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    Hopkins. A.J.

    •  1938  "A Study of Kerotakis Process as Given by Zosimus and Later Alchemical Writers," Isis, 1938, 79, 2, 326.

    Idel, Moshe.

    • 1986 `The Origin of Alchemy According to Zosimus . . ." Revue des Études Juives,  l44 1986:117-24.

    Ibn Umail, Muhammad,  Ed.  M. Turab Ali.

    • Three Arabic Treatises on Alchemy. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal XII, I. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1933. 1st ed. Folio (12-1/4 x 9-3/4) PBk. Edition of the Texts (in Arabic), Excursus on the Writings and Date of Ibn Umail (English) with Ed. of the Latin Trans. of the "Ma' al-Waraqi". Plates with alchemical illustrations. Glossary, Index

     

    Ikhwān al-Safā'

    • Rasa'il   =  Rasā'il, ed. Kh. al-Zirikli, 4 vols. Cairo: 1928.

    al-`Irāqi, Abu aI-Qāsim Muhammad ibn Aḥmad

    • K. `ilm

    Kitāb al-`Ilm al-mubtasab fi zirā'at adh-dhahab (Book of Knowledge Acquired Concerning the Cultivation of Gold) by Abu 'I-Qāsim Muhammad ibn Aḥmad Ar-'Irāqi. Arabic Text Ed. trans. and Introd. by E. J. Holmyard. Paris I923.

    Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (8th/9th cent).

    • Rasā'il Jabir ibn Hayyan thalāthūn kitāb an wa Risalat an fi'l-Kimiya wa'l-Iksir...(Thirty Books and Treatises..). ed. Ahmad Farīd al-Miziyadi. Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-`Ilmiyya, 1427/2006 (608pp.).

     

    Nomenul Haq, Syed,

    • Names, Natures, and Things,  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 199X

    This important volume in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science series  and reconstructs the metaphysical system of the famous alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, known as “Geber” in the mediaeval Latin West.

    Jābir ibn Ḥayān [see appendix 1]

    •  Corbin tr. 1950   "Le livre du glorieux de Jabir ibn Ḥayyan," Eranos-Jahrbuch, 1950, 18, 47.

     

    al-Jaldakī, ‘Izz al-Dīn Aydamir ibn ‘Abd Allāh (d. 743/ 1342)
    عز الدين ايدمر ابن عبد الله الجلدكى

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    Jung, C.G.,

  • The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, edited by H. Reed, M. Fordham. G. Adler, and W. McGuire. Translated by R.F.C. Hull, L. Stein, in collaboration with D. Riveere and H. G. Baynes. 17 volumes in 18, continuing. Bollingen Series XX. New York: Pantheon Books, Princetion: Princeton University Press, London Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953-. Vol. 13 Alchemical Studies, Vol. 14 Mysterium conjunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy.

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    Kahane, Henry and Renée.

  • "Alchemy: Hellenistic and Medieval Alchcmy," Enc. Rel. Encyclopedia of Religion (New York, 1987), 1:195.

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    Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwiyah (d. c. 85/704) son of the second Umayyad caliph.
    خالد ابن يزيد ابن معاوي

    See M. Ullmann, 'Khālid ibn Yazīd b. Mu‘āwiya' in EI2  4:929-30; Sezgin, GAS IV:120-126; .Ullmann, Natur,192-5.
     Khālid ibn Yazīd is said that he have learned alchemy from a Byzantine monk named Maryanos (Marianos) and ordered the translation into Arabic of Greek and Coptic writings on alchemy. His association early Islamic alchemy may be wholly legendry.

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    Kraus, Paul.

    • 1930 "Der Zusammenbruch der Dchabir-Legende; II, Dschabir iLn Hajjan und die Isma'ilijja," Forschungsinstitutfur Geschichteder Naturwissenschaffcn, Berlin, Dritter Jahresbericht, 1930, 378.

    • ed. [1935] Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Essai sur l'histoire des ide'as scientifques dans l'Islam, uol. I): Textes choisics. Cairo: 1935.

    • 1936  "Raziana II," Orientalia, 1936, N.S. 5, 35-36, 335-

    • 1943  Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. Contribution à l'histoire des idées scientifiques dans l'Islam. I. Le corpus des écrits jābiriens. Le Caire I943.

    • 1986 Jábir ibn Hayyán: Contribution à l'Histoire des Idées Scientifiques dans l'Islam. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1986.

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    • 1986  Jābir ibn Hayyan Contribution à l'bistoire des idéés scientifiques dans l'Islam Jābir et la science grecque, par P. Kraus, Le Caire, 1942ārééd. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1986.

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    • 1942 `Jabir iLn Hayyan; Contributions a l'Histoire des Idees Scientifiques dans l'Islam; II, Jabir et la Science Grecque,ā Me'moires de l'Institut d'Egypte, 1942, 45, 11943 Le Corpas Jabirien, par P. Kraus, mémoire présenté à l'Insutut d'Égypte, V. 4S, Le Caire, Imprimerie de l'I.F.A.O., 1943.

    • 1942-3 `Jabir ibn Hayyan; Contributions a l'Histoire des Idees Scientifiques dans l'Islam; I, Le Corpus des Ecrits Jabiriensā, Me'moircs de l'Institut d'Egypte, 1943, 44, 1.

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    • [1944-5] II. Jābir et la science greque. Le Caire I94X. (Mémoires présentés à l'Institut d'Égypte t. 44,45).

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    Kraye, Ryan, and Schmitt eds.

    • 1986 J. Kraye, W. F. Ryan, and C. B. Schmitt. Pseudo-Aristotk in thc Middle Ages. London: 1986.

    Lindsay, Jack.

    • 1970 The Origins of Alchemy in Greco-Roman Egypt. F. Mueller, 1970.

    Lory, P.

    • 1983 Dix Traite's d'akbimic; Les dix premiers Traites du Livrc des Soixantc-dix. Paris:  

    •  (ed.) [1988] = L 'Elaboration de l'Elixir Supreme: Quatorzc Traites dc Gabir Ibn Hayyan sur k Granl (Euvrc Akbimiquc. Damascus:

    Nasr, Seyyed Hossein,

    • 1968  Science and Civilization in Islam. Boston:Harvard University Press

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    Partington, J. R.

    • 1937  `Albertus Magnus on Alchemy', Ambix, I, May 1937, 3-20.

  •  1961  A History of Chemistry.  4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1961-70.

    • Plessner, M + P. Kraus.

  • `Jābir ibn Ḥayyān,'  EI2  II:357.

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    al-Maqdisi [1899- 1919]

  • Ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi. Kitāb Bad' wa al-Tāwārikh, ed. Cl. Huart, 6 vols. Paris: 1899-1919.

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    Marquet [1988] = Y. Marquet.

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    Rev. S. N. Haq, Isis, 1992, 83,1, 120.

    Netton, I.R.

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    Monod-Herzen, G.

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    Pritchard, Alan

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    Ruska, Julius.

    • [1926] 1948 Tabula Smaragdina: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur. Heidelberg: 1926. reprint, 1948.

    Lippmann,Edmund O. von

    • 1931 Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie. Berlin: 1931. 2:229. See also Moshe

    Newman, W.R.

    • 1985 "New Light on the Identity of `Geber',"  Sudhoffs Archiv, 1982, 69, 1, 76.

  • 1985(a) "The Genesis of the Summa Perfectionis," Appendix, Archiv Internationales d 'Histoire des Sciences, 1985, 35, 114-115, 301.

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  • 1991 The Summa Periectionis of Pseudo-Geber. Leiden: 1991.

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    Plessner, M.

    • 1927 "Neue Materialien zur Geschichte der Tabula Smaragdina," Der Islam, 1927, 16, 77.

  • 1931 "Beitrage zur islamischen Literaturgeschichte, I: Studien zu arabischen Handschriften aus Stambul, Konia und Damaskus," Studia Islamica, 1931, 4, 525.

  • 1954 "Hermes Trismegistus and Arabic Science," Studia Islamica, 1954, 2, 45.

  • 1965 "Jabir ibn Hayyan und die Zeit der Entstehung der arabischen Jabir-Schriften," Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenlandischen Gesellscatft. 1965, 115, 23.

  • 1972 "The History of Arabic Literature," Ambix, 1972, 19, 3, 209.

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  • "Balinus," [EI2], I, 994.

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  • Jabir ibn Hayyan," [DSB], VII, 39.

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    1974 "The Natural Sciences and Medicine" in The Lega of Islam, eds. J. Schacht and C. E. Bosworth. Oxford: 1974.

    Ruska, J.

    • 1919 Griechische Planetendarstellungen in arabischen Steinbüchern, Heidelberg, 1919.

  • 1924 Arabischen Alchemisten. I-II, Heidelberg, 1924.  I. Chālid ibn Jazād ibn Mu`āwija. II. Ga`far al-ādiq, der sechste Imām. Von Julius Ruska. Heidelberg I924. 

    • 1926 Tabula Smaragdina: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Hermetischen Literatur, Heidelberg, 1926.

    1927 `Studien zur Geschichte der Chemie' (Festschrift Edmund O. von Lippmann), Berlin, 1927.

    1931 Turba Philosophorum: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Alchimie, Berlin, 1931.

    Ruska, Julius.

    • Tabula Smaragdina =

    • = Tabula Smaragdina. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur von Julius Ruska. Heidelberg I926.

  • Turba Philosophorum =  Turba Philosophorum. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Alchemie von Julius Ruska in: 1931  Turba Philosophorum: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Alchimie, Berlin:

  • 1926  Tabula Smaragdina. Ein Beitratzur Gcschichte der hermetischen Literatur. Heidelberg: 1926.

  • ed. 1927   Studicn zur Geschichtc der Chemic; Festgabc f E. O. von Lipmann zum 70. Gehurtstage. Berlin: 1927.

  • 1929  "The History and Present Status of Jabir Problem," Journal of Chemical Education, 1929, 6, 1266 (Repr. Islamic Culture, 1937, 11, 30).

  • 1935  Das Buch der Alaunc und Salzc, cin Grundwerk der spdtlatcinischen Alchemic. Berlin: 1935.

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    Sezgin, Fuat :

    The Turkish professor and the director of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Major bibliographer of Arabic Literature

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    • (1956) Katalog der arabischen alchemistischen Handschriften Deutschlands: Handschriften der öffentlichen Bibliotheken zu Dresden, Göttingen, Leipzig und München. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956..
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    • 1927  "Chemistry in Iraq and Persia in the 10th Century A.D.," Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1927, 8, 315.

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     T. `Alā and M. H. Husain.

    • 1933  "Three Arabic Treatises on Alchemy by Muhammad ibn Umail (lOth Century A.D.)," Memoirs of thc Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1933, 12, no. 1, 1.

    Stapleton, H. E., and Sherwood Taylor, F.,

    • 1949`The Sayings of Hermes quoted in the mā' al-waraqi of Ibn Umail', Ambix, vol. 3, Nos 3 and 4, 1949, pp. 69-90.

  • 1953 "The Antiquity of Alchemy," Ambix, 1953, 5, 1.

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  • 1957 "The Gnomon as a possible link between one type of Mesopotamian Ziggurat and the Magic Square Numbers on which Jabirian alchemy was based," Ambix, 1957, 6, 1.

  • 1958 "Ancient and Modern Aspects of Pythagoreanism," Osiris, 1958, 13, 12.

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    Stapleton, H.E., Azo, R.F.,

    Hidayat Husain, M., and Lewis, G.L.,

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    Steele, R.R.

    • 1892 trans. The Discovery of Secrets Attributed to Geber. London: 1892.

    Taylor, Frank Sherwood,

    • 1937 `The Origins of Greek Alchemy', Ambix, I, May 1937, 30-47.

    • 1937b `The Alchemical Works of Stephanos of Alexandria', Ambix, I, 1937, 116-39.

    • `The Idea of the Quintessence; in Science Medicine and History', ed. E.A. Underwood, Essays in Honour of Charles Singer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953, pp. 247-65.

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    Temkin, O

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    Ullmann, M.    

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