Kitab al-Kimya

Kitāb al-Kīmyāʼ (Arabic: كتاب الكيمياء‎) is a writing on alchemy by Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), written sometime in the late 8th century. Originally written in Arabic, it was translated into Latin and various European languages. It was translated in 1144 by Robert of Chester as The Book of the Composition of Alchemy.^[1] It was the most influential of Geber's books in the West. The book, along with his Kitab al-Sab'een, has been described as being "popular in Europe for several centuries" and influencing the evolution of chemistry.^[2]

References

↑ Schlager, Neil; Lauer, Josh (2001). Science and Its Times: 700-1449. Gale Group. ISBN 978-0-7876-3934-1. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
↑ Abidin, Danial bin Zainal. Islam The Misunderstood Religion. PTS Litera Utama. p. 62. ISBN 978-983-3372-88-1. Retrieved 2 November 2011.

Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam

Alchemists

7th century	Khālid ibn Yazīd

8th century	Harbi al-Himyari Ja'far al-Sadiq

9th century	Jābir ibn Hayyān Abbas ibn Firnas Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri Ziryab

10th century	Ibn Wahshiyya Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi Al-Razi Al-Farabi Ibn al-Nadim Al-Majriti Abu Mansur Muwaffaq

11th century	Ibn al-Wafid Al-Bīrūnī Avicenna Al-Khwarizmi al-Khati Miskawayh Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis Ahmad ibn 'Imad al-Din

12th century	Al-Khazini Artephius Al-Tughrai Al-Nabarawi Abu'l Hasan ibn Arfa Ra'a Abu al-Salt

13th century	Ibn al-Baitar Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati Al-Kātibī Attar of Nishapur Al-Simawi Hasan al-Rammah Mansur al-Kamili

14th century	Ibn Rassam Al-Jaldaki Abul Ashba ibn Tammam

Concepts

Works

Kitab al-Kimya
Kitab al-Sab'een

Alchemy (outline)

Concepts	Alkahest Azoth Chrysopoeia Classical planets (Suns) Elements Elixir of life Homunculus In art and entertainment Philosopher's stone Substances Symbols

Branches	Daoist Hindu Islamic Spagyric Iatrochemistry Chemistry

Magnum opus	Nigredo Albedo Citrinitas Rubedo

Processes	Calcination Ceration Cohobation Congelation Digestion Distillation Fermentation Filtration Fixation Multiplication Projection Solution Sublimation

Alchemists	Agastya Arthur Dee Fulcanelli Ge Hong Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Isaac Newton Jābir ibn Hayyān John Dee Albertus Magnus Khālid ibn Yazīd Bernard of Treviso Mary the Jewess Nicolas Flamel Ostanes Paracelsus Rhazes Robert Boyle Roger Bacon Wei Boyang Zosimos of Panopolis

Works	Alchemical Studies Atalanta Fugiens Aurora consurgens Baopuzi Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit Cantong qi Cyranides Emerald Tablet Fasciculus Chemicus Hermetic Definitions Hermetic Journal Hermetica Kitab al-Kimya Liber Ignium Musaeum Hermeticum Mutus Liber Occult Chemistry Psychology and Alchemy Rosary of the Philosophers Splendor Solis Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air Theatrum Chemicum Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Turba Philosophorum

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