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Alchemy in the Islamicate World SESSION 5: ALCHEMY AS LITERATURE AND VISUAL ART 2.45 pm | Literary aspects in “Garden of the Divine, Noble and Secret Art” and “Boasting of Stones” by the Andalusian alchemist Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī Vicky Ziegler (Bonn) 3.30 pm | The Alchemical Symbols in the Manuscripts of the “Mirror of Wonders” (Mirʾāt al-ʿajāʾib) Juliane Müller (Zurich) 4.15 pm | Final discussion The workshop is organized by Gotha Research Library in collaboration with the project “Between Religion and for an integrative Arabic literary and cultural history”, UniversityAlchemy: The of scholarZurich, Ibnand Arfaʿ is generously Raʾs (d. 1197) supported as a model by German Research Foundation (DFG), the University of Erfurt, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Uni- versity of Zurich and the Freundeskreis der Forschungs- bibliothek Gotha e.V. To attend the workshop please register at: [email protected]. CONTACT Forschungsbibliothek Gotha/ Gotha manuscript workshop Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt www.uni-erfurt.de/bibliothek/fb Email: [email protected] University of Erfurt Alchemy in the Gotha Research Library Friedenstein Castle Islamicate world 99867 Gotha September 28–29, 2018 | Friedenstein Castle Gotha GERMANY Tel.: +49(0)361/737-5540 climated],Image: Illuminated FB Gotha, Arabic Ms. orient. alchemical A 1261, manuscript, Bl. 6b. Abū al-Qāsim al-ʽIrāqī al-Sīmāwī (?), Kitāb al-aqālim al-sabʽa [Book of the seven Alchemy was a widespread practice in the Islamicate 10.15 am | Zosimos of Panopolis at the 5.15 pm | Poetry as Code, Poetry as world that was taught from early on to the 19th/20th Forschungsbibliothek Gotha? Epigraph: ʿIzz al-Dīn Aydemir century. In spite of its popularity attested to by histo- Or The Alchemy of Religious al-Jildakī and his commentaries on rical references as well as the wealth of alchemical Pluralism: Risāla fī Bayān Tafrīq alchemical poetry manuscripts that have come down to us, the study of al-Adyān Nicholas G. Harris (Newark) Arabo-Islamic alchemy has been neglected for seve- Bink Hallum (London) ral decades. Notwithstanding a renewed interest in 6 pm | Visit to the library: Islamic 11 am | coffee/tea break Manuscripts, especially on alchemy come to terms with seminal alchemical texts and cen- tralthe fieldaspects in recentof Islamic years, alchemy scholars like are the still terminology struggling and to SESSION 2: THE FOUNDATIONS OF ISLAMICATE Saturday, September 29 codes used by alchemists, or alchemy as a practice and ALCHEMY SESSION 4: ALCHEMY AS A PRACTICAL ART science in its social contexts. 11.30 am | The works of the prince Khālid ibn AND SCIENCE Yazīd in light of the alchemical 9 am | From Sinjār to Istanbul: The workshop, organized jointly by Prof Dr Regula Fors- manuscripts The Intellectual Context and Trans- ter, University of Zurich/Freie Universität Berlin, and Marion Dapsens (Louvain-la-Neuve) mission of One Pseudo-Aristotelian Gotha Research Library, aims to close some of these re- Epistle on the Craft 12.15 pm | The Historicity of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān: Salam Rassi (Collegeville/Oxford) and younger scholars working on alchemy and by provi- An overview of the external sources search gaps in the field by bringing together established ding them with the opportunity to engage directly with Thijs Delva (Leuven) 9.45 am | Alchemy in Medieval Cairo: New the alchemical manuscripts of the Gotha collection. The evidence of theory and practice in panels will focus on the Gotha collection, the foundati- 1 pm | lunch break the Judaeo-Arabic fragments from ons of Islamicate Alchemy, on Decknamen, Terminology, the Cairo Genizah and Codes, on alchemy as a practical art and science, as Gabriele Ferrario (Baltimore) well as on alchemy as literature and visual art. By ad- 2.30 pm | Making sense of the alchemical SESSION 3: DECKNAMEN, TERMINOLOGY, AND CODES dressing these topics we also hope to lay the founda- terminology: Two Syriac dictiona- 10.30 am | The Recipe in Arabic Alchemy: tions for future transregional research on alchemy. ries on alchemy Some remarks on the alchemical Matteo Martelli (Bologna) composite manuscript Gotha orient. A 1162 PROGRAMME 3.15 pm | In Code We Trust. The concept of Christopher Braun (Zurich) rumūz in Andalusī alchemical Friday, September 28 literature and related texts 11.15 am | coffee/tea break 9 am | Welcome Godefroid de Callataÿ, Sébastien Moureau (Louvain-la-Neuve) 11.45 am | The Microcosmos-Macrocosmos- Analogy and the Preparation of Kathrin Paasch (Gotha) 9.15 am | Introduction 4 pm | coffee/tea break the Philosopher’s Stone Regula Forster (Zurich/Berlin) Natalia Bachour (Zurich) 4.30 pm | Deciphering Alchemical Texts: Medieval Arabic works on alchemi- 12.30 pm | al-Aṣnām al-Sabʿa: its content and MANUSCRIPT SESSION cal terminology influence in Arabic and Persian SESSION 1: THE GOTHA COLLECTION – 9.30 am | Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs in Gotha Lutfallah Gari (Yanbu) alchemical heritage Svetlana Dolgusheva (Zurich), Regula Forster (Zurich/Berlin), Malihe Karbassian (Bonn) Richard Todd (Birmingham) 1.15 pm | lunch break.
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