Aḥmad ibn ‘Imād al-Dīn, ''Ahmad ibn Imad ad-Din'' ( ar, أحمد بن عماد الدين) was a Persian physician and alchemist. He was probably from

Nishapur Nishapur or officially Romanized as Neyshabur ( fa, ;Or also "نیشاپور" which is closer to its original and historic meaning though it is less commonly used by modern native Persian speakers. In Persian poetry, the name of this city is wr ...

in the 11th century. He was the author of an alchemical treatise titled ''On the Art of the Elixir'' (or ''Fi sina‘at al-iksir'') which is preserved in the

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. No other copy has been identified, and the author is not listed in the published bibliographies of Islamic writers on

alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

. He wrote the alchemical treatise titled ''On the Art of the Elixir'' (or ''Fi sina‘at al-iksir''), in which he describes various

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s. The manuscript copy is undated, but appears to be of the 17th or 18th century. In it, there is extensive marginalia giving citations from

Jābir ibn Hayyān Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Arabic: , variously called al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī), died 806−816, is the purported author of an enormous number and variety of works in Arabic, often called the Jabirian corpus. The ...

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11th-century alchemists 11th-century Iranian physicians Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world Physicians from Nishapur Date of death unknown Year of birth unknown Persian alchemists Iranian chemists {{iran-med-bio-stub

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