This article will present what we know of the life and times of an important alchemist, Ibn Umayl. It is entitled ‘Towards a Context’ because I have not yet consulted a number of his treatises, which are mostly only available as manuscripts. Ibn Umayl’s position in alchemy accords with Hermetic doctrines, and may have developed as a traditionalist reaction to developments in alchemy around the ...

This article briefly presents what the science of letters and alchemy meant for Ibn ʿArabī explains why this Sufi mystic attributes highest degree these sciences to Jesus. We will see how is a knowledge God’s creation, which He creates with His Word, where existentiation verb, Kun (Be!), plays fundamental role. imperative pronounced by God when wants something exist appears in Qurʾān reference ...

love and its transformative power have long been at the center of islamic sufism. for sufi writers profane love, perceived as the love of worldly beloved, was the first step on the path toward the union with the divine. farid al-din ‘attar (1145-1221) was one of the most significant authors to espouse and articulate profane love as a representation of both earthly and heavenly love. 'attar’s us...

in some verses of the holy quran we read something about the love of god in men and the love of a number of men in god. mull sadra has known the truth of love to lie in god by defining it as rejoicing by the favorable thing and says that its application to the creatures is metaphorical just in the way that application of existence to them is. every created being is a shadow of gods hierarchical...

The use of chemicals gradually increased from prehistoric time to the fourth century A.D. when alchemy was introduced. Alchemy was a branch of chemistry that attempted to transform base metals (eg, lead, copper, and zinc) to precious metals (eg, silver and gold) [1]. Alchemists pursued this futile goal with secretive stubbornness for over a thousand years, to the detriment of chemistry as a who...

the scholarly character of khālid b. yazīd and his attempts in acquiring and spreading of knowledge has always been of doubt to researchers and, with the expansion in the field of research on roots of science, has taken a mythical form. in earlier centuries, ibn khaldūn, and in the modern age, such researchers as ruska, kraus, ulman, sarton, and mieli have totally denied khālid’s attempts in th...