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Islamic Alchemy in the context of Islamic ScienceThese pages are edited by Prof. Hamed Abdel-reheem EadProfessor of Chemistry at Faculty of Science-University of Cairo Giza-Egypt and director of Science Heritage Center E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.frcu.eun.eg/www/universities/html/hamed2.htm Part 1 Metallurgy - Copper and Iron Extraction. - Mercury - Metal and Mysticism - Art of Glass Making - Textile and Dyeing Materials. Part 2 Earliest Chemical Manuscripts of the Chemical Arts In Egypt - Discovery of earliest chemical manuscripts - Leyden Papyrus - Stockholm Papyrus - Some selections from the Leyden Papyrus. Part 3 Dyeing Processes in Leyden and Stockholm Papyri - Phrygian Stone - Hints for testing the quality of dyestuffs - Methods For Whitening Pearls - Method of making Artificial Pearls - Trade Names of Materials used in the Recipes Part 4 Alexandria-Egypt and Early Alchemists - Alexandrian Alchemical Mystics - Fate of Alexandria University - Alexandria In Times Of Muslims - The Earliest Alchemical Writers In Alexandria A study of the treatment and Conservation of Coptic Icons
History of Botany
Medicine In Old Egypt
Introduction: Cultural Background - Islamic Alchemy In Western Writings The sources of alchemy among Muslims: Archelaos - Socrates - Plato (Aflatun) - Aristotle (Aristu)o - Porphyry (d. c. 303) - Galen (Jahnus) (d. c. 199 AD) - Bolos the Democritean of Mendes - Zosimus - Hermes and Hermetic literature - Sirr al-Khaliqa of Ballnas Muslim alchemists: Jabir ibn Haiyan (721-815) - Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (866-925) Later Arab alchemists: Aidamir al-Jildaki (?-1342) - Al-Tughra'i (1063-1120) - Al-Majriti ( -1007) General review of Muslim chemistry Alchemy in Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah Edited by Prof. Maher Abd Al Kader M. Ali. Arabic (or Islamic) Influence On the Historical Development of Medicine Edited and Prepared By Prof. Hamed A. Ead, Professor of Chemistry, Cairo University [8th August 1998, Heidelberg, Germany] Averroes As A Physician On the occasion of the 800th Anniversary of the Muslim Scientist "Averroes". Edited and prepared by Prof. Hamed A. Ead during the DAAD fellowship hosted by Heidelberg University, July-October, 1998 Based on the book George Sarton, Introduction To the History of Science. Edited and prepared by Prof. Hamed A. Ead The Time of Jabir Ibn Haiyan - Second half of Eighth Century The Time of Al-Khwarizmi - First Half of Ninth Century The Time of Al-Razi - Second Half of Ninth Century The Time of Al-Mas'udi - First Half of Tenth Century The Time of Abu-l-Wafa - Second Half of Tenth Century The Time of Al-Biruni - First Half of Eleventh Century The Time of Omar Khayyam - Second Half of Eleventh Century Portraits of Twelve Muslim Scientists in Various Fields Timeline of Islamic Scientists (700-1400) |