Names, Natures and Things: The Alchemist Jābir Ibn Hayyān and His Kitāb Al-Ahjār (Book of Stones)

by Syed Nomanul Haq

Book Overview

Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792332547
• ISBN13: 9780792332541
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.6"