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    Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world refers to both traditional alchemy and early practical chemistry (the early chemical investigation of nature in...
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    Jewish culture in Spain Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world Islamic studies Islamic world contributions...
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    influences." Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world Christian views on astrology Hellenistic astrology Horary astrology Islam and astrology Jewish views...
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    Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads...
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    gunpowder. The Islamic world also influenced other aspects of medieval European culture, partly by original innovations made during the Islamic Golden Age...
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    practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman...
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    Shams al-Ma'arif (category Medieval Arabic literature)
    have been published in the Urdu and Turkish languages. Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world Astrology in the medieval Islamic world Simiyya Arabic: كتاب...
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  • Takwin (category Alchemy and chemistry in the medieval Islamic world)
    O'Connor, Kathleen Malone (1994). The alchemical creation of life (takwin) and other concepts of Genesis in medieval Islam (PhD). University of Pennsylvania...
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    The following is a list of inventions made in the medieval Islamic world, especially during the Islamic Golden Age, as well as in later states of the...
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  • magic charms). Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world Astrology in the medieval Islamic world – Islamic astrology of the Golden Age Islam and astrology...
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  • existed. The attribution to Apollonius, though false (pseudonymous), is common in medieval Arabic texts on magic, astrology, and alchemy. The introduction...
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    Turba Philosophorum (category Alchemical works of the medieval Islamic world)
    put Greek alchemy into the Arabic language and to adapt it to Islamic science". Nine philosophers take part in a discussion, being, once the text has been...
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  • Al-Jawbari (category Alchemy and chemistry in the medieval Islamic world)
    medieval Syrian Arab author and scholar known for his denunciation of alchemy. Born in Jawbar, Syria, Al-Jawbari traveled extensively throughout the Islamic...
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  • includes the application of Hermetic principles, and practices related to mythology, religion, and spirituality. Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam Chinese...
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  • The following is a list of internationally recognized Muslim scholars of medieval Islamic civilization who have been described as the father or the founder...
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    al-kīmiyāʾ ad alchimiam. The Transmission of Alchemy from the Arab-Muslim World to the Latin West in the Middle Ages". Micrologus. 28: 87–141. hdl:2078...
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  • Ahmad ibn 'Imad al-Din (category Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world)
    Iranian scientists Medical Encyclopedia of Islam and Iran "Islamic Medical Manuscripts, Alchemy 54". Archived from the original on 13 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-18...
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    survive today mainly deal with alchemy and chemistry, magic, and Shi'ite religious philosophy. However, the original scope of the corpus was vast, covering...
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    Knowledge of this world as it really is, Knowledge of the next world as it really is. Persian literature Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam Bowering, Gerhard...
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    Avicenna (category Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world)
    medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy...
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  • Islamic cosmology is the cosmology of Islamic societies. Islamic cosmology is not a single unitary system, but is inclusive of a number of cosmological...
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    Athanor (category Alchemical tools)
    Arabic texts of the period of the Caliphate which use the term "al-tannoor" in talismanic alchemy, meaning a bread-oven, from which the design portrayed...
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    Chinese alchemy is a historical Chinese approach to alchemy, a pseudoscience. According to original texts such as the Cantong qi, the body is understood...
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    The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere...
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    throughout the Arabic-Islamic world from Yemen to Spain. The non-agricultural material in The Nabataean Agriculture paints a vivid picture of rural life in 10th-century...
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  • Islamic law, which developed in the medieval Islamic world from the 7th to 9th centuries, bears a notable resemblance to the English trust law. Every waqf was...
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    result of Islamic missionary activities (dawah), as well as through conquests. The two main Islamic branches are Sunni Islam (85–90%) and Shia Islam (10–15%)...
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    Al-Kindi (category Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world)
    was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy". Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad...
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  • Khalid ibn Yazid (category Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world)
    alchemiae ("The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy") Liber trium verborum ("The Book of the Three Words") Alchemy and chemistry in the medieval Islamic world Ibn...
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  • Hasan al-Rammah (category Engineers of the medieval Islamic world)
    Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-year History. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-66072-3. Elgood, Robert (1995). Firearms of the Islamic World: In the Tared...
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