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Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world

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Avicenna
Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Al-Biruni
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Farabi
thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy".
Jabir ibn Hayyan
8th-century Islamic alchemist and author
Al-Kindi
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ; ; ) was an Arab polymath who was active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
'''Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi, Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis' (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim''), was an Arab physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus. He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages.
Ibn al-Baitar
Andalusian Arab pharmacist, botanist, physician and scientist (1197–1248)
Ibn Miskawayh
Ibn Miskuyah ( Muskūyah, 932–1030), (Arabic: مِسْكَوَيْه، أبو علي محمد بن أحمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي) full name Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī was a Persian chancery official of the Buyid era, and philosopher and historian from Parandak, Iran. As a Neoplatonist, his influence on Islamic philosophy is primarily in the area of ethics. He was the author of the first major Islamic work on philosophical ethics entitled the Refinement of Character ( Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq), focusing on practical ethics, conduct, and the refinement of character. He separated personal ethics from
Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri
Sufi saint
Ibn al-Nadim
10th century Arab scholar and bibliographer
Al-Khazini
Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini (; flourished 1115–1130) was an Iranian astronomer, mechanician and physicist of Byzantine Greek origin who lived during the Seljuk Empire. His astronomical tables, written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar ('''', 1115), are considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period. He is considered to have been one of the greatest scientists of his era, among the greatest makers of scientific instruments of any time, and as "the physicist of all physicists".
Ibn Wahshiyya
Nabatean Arab writer, agronomist and historian
Maslamah ibn Aḥmad Majrīṭī
Muslim Arab astronomer, alchemist, mathematician, economist and Scholar in al-Andalus
Khalid ibn Yazid
Umayyad prince and legendary alchemist
Ibn al-Wafid
Arab Muslim physician (997-1074)
Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis
ruler of the Zirids
Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati
Andalusian botanist (1166-1239)
Abu al-Salt
Andalusian Arabic polymath
Al-Tughrai
'''Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma'il al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Du'ali al-Kināni al-Tughra'i''' () (1061 – c. 1121) was an Arabic poet and alchemist.
Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī
Persian philosopher
Hasan al-Rammah
Syrian chemist and engineer
Al-Jaldaki
Ali bin Mahammad Aydamir or ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Jildakī (Egyptian Arabic: عز الدين الجلدكي; Coptic: Ⲉⲍ ⲉⲗⲇⲓⲛ ⲉⲗϫⲗⲇⲕⲓ), also written al-Jaldakī (d. 1342 CE / 743 AH) was an Egyptian alchemist from the 14th century Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. A scientist and author who specialized in chemistry and lived in the eighth century AH. He copied entire paragraphs from the works of Jabir bin Hayyan, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Ibn Arfa` Ras, Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, and others, thus serving the history of chemistry in Islam, as he recorded in his works much of what had disappeared from the books of his predecessors. Haji
Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi
tenth-century Egyptian alchemist
Artephius
Artephius (or Artefius) (c. 1150) is a writer to whom a number of alchemical texts are ascribed. Although the roots of the texts are unclear and the identity of their author obscure, at least some of them are Arabic in origin. He is named as the author of several books, the Ars sintrillia, Clavis sapientiae or Clavis maioris sapientiae, and Liber secretus.
Ibn Rassam
Islamic alchemist
Abu'l Hasan ibn Arfa Ra'a
Muslim chemist and author of the The Golden Spangle (Shudur al-dahab)
Abul Ashba ibn Tammam
Ahmad ibn 'Imad al-Din
Physician and alchemist
Mansur al-Kamili
Al-Simawi
Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Iraqi al-Simawi (died 1260?) was a Muslim alchemist from Baghdad who performed various experiments and wrote the Kitāb al-ʿIlm al-muktasab fī zirāʿat al-dhahab ("The Book of Acquired Knowledge concerning the Cultivation of Gold"). Al-Jildaki was deeply inspired by his works and wrote various commentaries and references regarding the works of Al-Simawi.