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If the identification of Ibn Arfa' Ra's with Ibn al-Naqirāt is given up, the period in which he lived becomes very uncertain. Since Ibn al-Abbar knew of his works in the middle of the thirteenth century and some of the earliest commentaries on his work date from that period, Ibn Arfa' Ra's must have
403:), suggest that Ibn al-Abbar may have conflated the alchemist Ibn Arfa' Ra's with the religious scholar Ibn al-Naqirāt. In this case, very little remains that can be said about the life of Ibn Arfa' Ra's. Like Ibn al-Naqirāt, he originated in Al-Andalus, perhaps in
643:('Spiritual Medicine through the Merciful Quran') has been attributed to Ibn Arfa' Ra's, but this attribution is clearly spurious since the work heavily borrows from thirteenth–fourteenth century works on magic like those written by pseudo-
407:, and later settled elsewhere. Although the fact that he was sometimes called al-Maghribī indicates that he may also have settled in Morocco, the alchemical manuscripts make no mention of Fez or any other specific place. Alternatively, the
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However, the divergence between the names in the biographical dictionaries and those given in the manuscripts of the alchemical works attributed to Ibn Arfa' Ra's, as well as certain details in reports relating to the two figures given by
500:('Shards of Gold'). These poems, which all together comprise about 1400 lines, are arranged by the letter they use to rhyme, thus covering the entire Arabic alphabet. A large number of commentaries on the work were written by other
668:'s (1181–1235) wine poem which may have been authored by Ibn Arfa' Ra's, although this would necessitate placing Ibn Arfa' Ra's's lifetime in the thirteenth century rather than the twelfth, which is not very likely.
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attributed to Ibn Arfa' Ra's, is less certain, but the fact that its author holds magic in higher regard than alchemy suggests that it was not written by a devoted alchemist like Ibn Arfa' Ra's.
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Kitāb Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr. In the transmission of Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī. By Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs
1049:
Braun, Christopher; Forster, Regula (2020). "Alchemist und Magier? Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs im
Kontext der arabisch-islamischen Gelehrsamkeit". In Eming, Jutta; Wels, Volkhard (eds.).
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Braun, Christopher; Forster, Regula (2021). "The
Alchemist's work: Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs and the reception of his collection of alchemical poems Shudhūr al-dhahab".
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genre (strophic verse) and a number of short prose works on alchemy. Two works on magic have also been attributed to him, but these are probably spurious.
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Zwischen
Religion und Alchemie: Der Gelehrte Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (gest. 593/1197) als Modell für eine integrative arabische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte
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Todd, Richard (2021). "Classical poetic motifs as alchemical metaphors in the Shudhūr al-dhahab and its commentaries".
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as "Ibn al-Niqirāt", "Ibn al-Niqarāt", "Ibn al-Nuqirāt", etc. (the "a" and "i" in "Naqirāt" are conjectural); see
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1218:"Alchemical tafsīr: Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the Works of the Twelfth-Century Moroccan Alchemist Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs"
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A number of short prose works have been attributed to Ibn Arfa' Ra's, but these have not yet been investigated:
421:(the Islamic East). In any case, it is clear that he spent a major part of his life in the West, most likely in
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Forster, Regula (2021). "Alchemical stanzaic poetry (muwashshaḥ) by Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (fl. twelfth century)".
1149:"Planets in Alchemy: Commentaries and Glosses on the Opening Verses of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs's Shudhūr al-dhahab"
270:(the part of his name indicating lineage) "son of Ali son of Musa son of Muhammad son of Khalaf", nor his
256:. The fullest version of Ibn Arfa' Ra's's name, as may be reconstructed from the earliest manuscripts, is
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Todd, Richard (2016). "Alchemical Poetry in
Almohad Morocco: The Shudhūr al-dhahab of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs".
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There are also some alchemical poems by Ibn Arfa' Ra's which are written in
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311:ʿAlī ibn Mūsa ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs Abī al-⟨Qāsim?⟩ al-Anṣārī al-Maghribī
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is much harder to establish. The fact that Ibn Arfa' Ra's cites
417:(the Islamic West, the region west of Egypt) and settled in the
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Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsa al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs
1122:"The Identity, Life and Works of the Alchemist Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs"
978:
Shudhūr al-dhahab. Dīwān Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī
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ranks among the first works to feature exegesis of the Quran (
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that uses strophic verse. These were not included in the
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Ibn Arfa' Ra's wrote a commentary on his own alchemical
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Der
Begriff der Magie in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
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364:(variant readings of the Quran) as well as in the
279:(names referring to a place of origin) al-Sālimī (
212:Ibn Arfa' Ra's wrote a commentary on his own work
328:mentions that Ibn al-Naqirāt was born in 1121 or
205:Morocco. At some point he likely traveled to the
201:, it is likely that he spent most of his life in
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2469:Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air
230:'). He also wrote some alchemical poems in the
2246:Book of the Silvery Water and the Starry Earth
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322:(died 1260) in his biographical dictionary
1993:John of Rupescissa (Jean de Roquetaillade)
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861:, p. 375. On these commentaries, see
413:al-Maghribī may indicate that he left the
2281:Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
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1137:
1120:Forster, Regula; Müller, Juliane (2020).
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640:al-Ṭibb al-ruḥānī bi-al-Qurʾān al-raḥmānī
482:Ibn Arfa' Ra's's most enduring work is a
302:The author's name in a manuscript of the
2726:Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world
1596:al-ʿIlm al-muktasab fī zirāʿat al-dhahab
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617:Fī tarkīb al-iksīr al-ḥayawānī al-insānī
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2069:George Starkey (Eirenaeus Philalethes)
1197:Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
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1080:Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
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2149:Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)
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1291:Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world
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1153:Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
2731:12th-century Arabic-language writers
1222:Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations
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16:12th-century Maghrebi alchemist poet
2741:Scholars from the Almohad Caliphate
2300:De consideratione quintae essentiae
1575:Masāʾil Khālid li-Maryānus al-rāhib
1464:Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Nabātī (pharmacist)
980:. Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya.
712:
515:), as well as five commentaries by
246:Most traditional authors of Arabic
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13:
1678:Nihāyat al-rutba fī ṭalab al-ḥisba
969:
567:('Solution to the Problems of the
464:First page of a manuscript of the
224:('Solution to the Problems of the
209:, where he may also have settled.
104:('Solution to the Problems of the
14:
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325:Kitāb al-Takmila li-Kitāb al-Ṣila
171:) of alchemical poems called the
2746:Poets from the Almohad Caliphate
2695:
2694:
2267:Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit
1568:al-Burhān fī asrār ʿilm al-mīzān
976:Ghazzali, Lahouari, ed. (2018).
600:genre are usually excluded from
27:
2234:Liber de compositione alchemiae
1958:(pseudo-)Arnaldus de Villa Nova
1917:pseudo-Khālid ibn Yazīd (Calid)
1765:Hermes Trismegistus (legendary)
1314:pseudo-Khālid ibn Yazīd (Calid)
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664:There is also a commentary on
654:al-Jihāt fī ʿilm at-tawajjuhāt
550:
258:
252:
1:
2550:Theatrum chemicum Britannicum
1235:10.1080/09596410.2023.2283677
992:Müller, Juliane, ed. (2024).
982:(non-critical edition of the
749:
520:
430:
393:
187:
53:
1629:One Hundred and Twelve Books
941:, p. 380, referring to
734:His name may also have been
547:) in an alchemical context.
376:, preaching in the renowned
348:(Morocco) where he became a
22:ʿAlī ibn Mūsa ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs
7:
2522:Deutsches Theatrum Chemicum
2508:Bibliotheca chemica curiosa
1615:al-Miṣbāḥ fī ʿilm al-miftāḥ
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2401:Rosary of the Philosophers
2387:Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis
2326:Liber Hermetis de alchemia
1469:Ḥasan al-Rammāḥ (engineer)
1459:Ibn al-Bayṭār (pharmacist)
1319:pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana
1139:10.3989/alqantara.2020.010
340:, and that he was born in
2690:
2570:
2492:
2211:
2202:
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2064:pseudo-Bernard of Treviso
2046:
1945:
1897:Ibn Umayl (Senior Zadith)
1867:Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Rhazes)
1857:
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1412:Ibn al-Wāfid (pharmacist)
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1356:Ibn Umayl (Senior Zadith)
1351:Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Rhazes)
1343:
1327:
1306:
1297:
1252:(research project at the
1188:10.1163/18778372-04401006
1027:Forster & Müller 2020
1019:Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr
1016:(critical edition of the
955:Forster & Müller 2020
939:Forster & Müller 2020
927:Forster & Müller 2020
915:Forster & Müller 2020
899:Forster & Müller 2020
887:Forster & Müller 2020
859:Forster & Müller 2020
847:Forster & Müller 2020
835:Forster & Müller 2020
823:Forster & Müller 2020
811:Forster & Müller 2020
799:Forster & Müller 2020
787:Forster & Müller 2020
775:Forster & Müller 2020
763:Forster & Müller 2020
740:Forster & Müller 2020
693:Forster & Müller 2020
564:Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr
248:biographical dictionaries
221:Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr
117:
100:Ḥall mushkilāt al-Shudhūr
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62:
45:
35:
26:
21:
1912:Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Geber)
1745:Agathodaemon (legendary)
1335:Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Geber)
1147:Müller, Juliane (2022).
943:Braun & Forster 2020
687:Non-critical edition in
671:
502:Islamo-Arabic alchemists
455:
2104:Jan Baptist van Helmont
1844:Stephanus of Alexandria
637:A work on magic called
1937:al-Zahrāwī (Abulcasis)
1495:Abū l-Ashbā ibn Tammām
1407:Aḥmad ibn ʿImād al-Dīn
1397:al-Khawārizmī al-Kāthī
1376:al-Zahrāwī (Abulcasis)
1371:Abū Manṣūr al-Muwaffaq
1254:University of Tübingen
1216:Todd, Richard (2023).
1209:10.1515/asia-2020-0043
1113:10.1515/asia-2020-0009
1092:10.1515/asia-2020-0033
1060:10.13173/9783447115094
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2373:Nabataean Agriculture
2260:Books of the Balances
2109:Johann Rudolf Glauber
2079:Giovanni da Correggio
1622:Nabataean Agriculture
1561:Books of the Balances
1002:10.1515/9783110779356
594:because poems of the
463:
301:
2618:In art/entertainment
2028:(pseudo-)Roger Bacon
1790:Zosimos of Panopolis
1785:Paphnutia the Virgin
957:, pp. 381, 396.
801:, pp. 389, 394.
721:Critical edition in
179:('Shards of Gold').
2721:12th-century deaths
2638:Philosophers' stone
2633:Pill of Immortality
2529:Fasciculus chemicus
2476:Turba philosophorum
2394:Physika kai mystika
2124:Michael Sendivogius
2003:pseudo-Michael Scot
1839:pseudo-Olympiodorus
1780:Ostanes (legendary)
1671:Turba Philosophorum
1520:Philosopher's stone
1402:al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs
889:, pp. 376–379.
849:, pp. 394–396.
837:, pp. 397–400.
789:, pp. 392–393.
777:, pp. 382–387.
765:, pp. 387–388.
624:Risāla fī al-kīmiyā
344:but later moved to
186:(Morocco) who died
2536:Musaeum Hermeticum
2462:Summa perfectionis
2441:(pseudo-Aristotle)
2431:Secret of Creation
2380:Ordinal of Alchemy
2023:pseudo-Ramon Llull
1927:Maslama al-Qurṭubī
1663:Secret of Creation
1645:(pseudo-Aristotle)
1589:Five Hundred Books
1366:Maslama al-Qurṭubī
1256:on Ibn Arfa' Ra's)
1029:, p. 375 and
695:, p. 375 and
657:, another work on
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440:terminus post quem
316:
94:('Shards of Gold')
52:, fl. most likely
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2543:Theatrum chemicum
2359:Mirror of Alchimy
2311:Tabula Smaragdina
2288:Clavis sapientiae
2227:Aurora consurgens
2198:
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2134:Pierre-Jean Fabre
2084:Heinrich Khunrath
1998:Magister Salernus
1973:Guido di Montanor
1760:pseudo-Democritus
1722:Alchemy (general)
1688:
1687:
1607:Clavis sapientiae
1503:
1502:
1166:10.5617/jais.9570
1070:978-3-447-11509-4
1043:Secondary sources
1036:Shudhūr al-dhahab
1011:978-614-485-165-4
985:Shudhūr al-dhahab
702:Shudhūr al-dhahab
591:Shudhūr al-dhahab
536:Shudhūr al-dhahab
497:Shudhūr al-dhahab
494:poems called the
476:Shudhūr al-dhahab
467:Shudhūr al-dhahab
305:Shudhūr al-dhahab
283:) or al-Jayyānī (
215:Shudhūr al-dhahab
175:Shudhūr al-dhahab
133:
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90:Shudhūr al-dhahab
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2698:
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2412:Step of the Sage
2352:Mappae clavicula
2319:Leyden papyrus X
2220:Atalanta fugiens
2209:
2208:
2190:Mary Anne Atwood
2175:Eugène Canseliet
2054:Andreas Libavius
2033:Taddeo Alderotti
1808:Fang (alchemist)
1755:pseudo-Cleopatra
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1603:Mifthāḥ al-ḥikma
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57: 1150–1200
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19:
18:
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2756:
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2754:
2752:
2751:
2750:
2711:
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2686:
2681:Suns in alchemy
2562:
2488:
2427:Sirr al-khalīqa
2408:Rutbat al-ḥakīm
2292:Miftāḥ al-ḥikma
2194:
2180:Frater Albertus
2158:
2154:Wilhelm Homberg
2059:Basil Valentine
2042:
2013:Paul of Taranto
1978:Hugh of Evesham
1953:pseudo-Albertus
1941:
1887:pseudo-Avicenna
1853:
1827:
1800:Ancient Chinese
1794:
1770:Mary the Jewess
1724:
1719:
1689:
1684:
1659:Sirr al-khalīqa
1539:
1499:
1473:
1442:
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1392:pseudo-Avicenna
1380:
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1293:
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1071:
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1889:
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1874:
1869:
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1855:
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2094:Isaac Newton
2089:Hennig Brand
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2047:Early modern
2018:Petrus Bonus
1963:pseudo-Geber
1891:
1775:pseudo-Moses
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207:Islamic East
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144:ابن أرفع رأس
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134:
2623:Magnum opus
2593:Chrysopoeia
2515:De alchemia
2366:Mutus liber
2345:Liber lucis
2212:Major Works
2099:Jakob Böhme
1988:John Dastin
1932:al-Ṭughrāʾī
1818:Master Geng
1428:al-Ṭughrāʾī
1328:9th century
1307:8th century
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551:Other works
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2185:Fulcanelli
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1730:Alchemists
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2008:Ortolanus
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