Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Iraqi al-Simāwi (d.1260?) was a Muslim
Alchemist from
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
who performed various experiments and was the famous author of ''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.
References
Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world
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