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Although Al-Kindi was indeed the first to actually decry certain Alchemic practices, specifically the quest to transmute any base metals into precious metals with the still elusive al-iksir.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Although Al-Kindi was indeed the first to actually decry certain Alchemic practices, specifically the quest to transmute any base metals into precious metals with the still elusive al-iksir.
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Like the elusive "elixir" - from the word al-iksir of the Arab alchemists - for changing base metal into gold, Muslim science altered medieval Christendom beyond recognition.
Informed Comment 2009
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However, when taken within the mystic context, Jabir’s al-iksir, somehow became a more than a thousand-year search, for a substance that could not only change base metals, but also grant the alchemist immortality.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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In difference, to al-Kindi, Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī, or Razi a man of his own contrasts who was eight when al-Kindi died, later championed the al-iksir and even publically refuted al-Kindi’s improbability statement of such a substance.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Jabir was also very interested and theorised about an al-iksir, the elusive elixir, However, Jabir’s al-iksir contrary to the immortality elixir Waidan mentioned in Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic and then The Kinship of the Three by Wei Boyang in 142CE.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Jabir was also very interested and theorised about an al-iksir, the elusive elixir, However, Jabir’s al-iksir contrary to the immortality elixir Waidan mentioned in Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic and then The Kinship of the Three by Wei Boyang in 142CE.
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In difference, to al-Kindi, Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī, or Razi a man of his own contrasts who was eight when al-Kindi died, later championed the al-iksir and even publically refuted al-Kindi’s improbability statement of such a substance.
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However, when taken within the mystic context, Jabir’s al-iksir, somehow became a more than a thousand-year search, for a substance that could not only change base metals, but also grant the alchemist immortality.
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