at-Tughrai
At-Tughrai , also at-Toghrai ( Arabic الطغرائي, DMG aṭ-Ṭuġrāʾī , Persian طغرایی, DMG Ṭoġrāyi , actual nameمؤيد الدين / Muʾaiyad ad-Dīn ; * 1061 in Isfahan ; died 1121 ), was a Persian physician, poet, and alchemist . He was also a senior official in the ruling Seljuks .
After the death of the emir Ghiyatad-Din Mas'ud he was involved in the power struggle of the sons for the succession, sided with the eldest son and was beheaded . He had been charged with heresy as a pretext for this .
Many of his poems have survived. He also wrote treatises on astrology and alchemy, especially the Miftāh ar-rahma wa-masābīh al-hikma fī l-kīmiyaʾ , an extensive compendium of Arabic alchemical texts. He also wrote a defense of alchemy against Avicenna ( Kitāb Haqāʾiq al-istishhādāt fī l-kīmiyaʾ , 1121).
An Arabic edition of alchemical texts by Zosimos from Panopolis was also identified as originating from him in the mid-1990s.
The alchemical author Artephius was identified with al-Tughrai by Johann Gildemeister .
literature
- FC de Blois: al-Tughra'i. In: HAR Gibbs et al. a. (Ed.): The Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd edition, Leiden: Brill, Volume 10, pp. 599-600.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ HS El Khadem: A Translation of a Zosimos' Text in an Arabic Alchemy Book. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Volume 84, 1996, pp. 168–178, pdf ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | at-Tughrai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | at-Toghrai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian poet and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1061 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Isfahan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1121 |