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al-Mursī, Abū l-ʿAbbās
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Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī al-Anṣārī
al-Mursī (b. 616/1219 in Murcia, d. 686/1287 in Alexandria) was the first successor of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 656/1258), the Moroccan mystic and founder of the Shādhiliyya Ṣūfī order. He settled in Tunis, where he met al-Shādhilī in 640/1242 (Ibn al-Sabbāgh, 146–7). He accompanied al-Shādhilī to Egypt in about 650/1252, became one of his closest disciples, and married one of his daughters. Al-Mursī b…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2022-04-21
KIMIĀ
(3,016 words)
Alchemy.
KIMIĀ, “alchemy.” As a medieval science, alchemy must be carefully distinguished from modern chemistry. Externally, the purpose of alchemy was the conversion of base metals like lead into silver or gold by means of long and complicated operations leading to the production of a mysterious substance, the “philosopher’s stone,” able to operate the transmutation. The idea is that all metals belong to the same species and evolve slowly in the earth from the state of lead to pure gold, and tha…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Date:
2021-12-16
