Article ID: CBB428419842

Maslama al-Qurṭubī’s Kitāb Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the History of Chemistry (2017)

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After the recent identification of the author of the K. Rutbat al-ḥakīm as Maslama al-Qurṭubī (d. 353/964) the value of this book for the history of alchemy/chemistry can be fully appreciated. Maslama was the first author to quote the Arabic Tome of Pictures (Muṣḥaf al-ṣuwar) of the Egyption alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis. He must have received a copy of this work from a center of alchemical learning in the western Maġrib. For its location the salt mining town Taġāza may tentatively be proposed. A large part of Maslama’s book deals with the rumūz, the symbolic language and puzzling expressions employed by the alchemists. He distinguishes between the rumūz used by the pre-Islamic alchemists and those used by the Arab alchemists beginning with Ǧābir b. Ḥayyān.

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Authors & Contributors
Roberts, Alexandre M.
Pereira, Michela
Christopher Braun
Akbari Shad, Saeed
Ghionea, Angela Catalina
Yücesoy, Hayrettin
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Alchemy
Transmission of texts
Chemistry
Transmission of ideas
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
10th century
Medieval
9th century
17th century
8th century
Early modern
Places
Byzantium
Egypt
Hellenistic world
Andalusia (Spain)
Central Asia
Sweden
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