Al-Kimiya, alchemy. [From: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. 5, (Khe–Mahi)]. Ullmann,

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A bit bumped, title and author's name handwritten on first page, otherwise clean. - From the text: The word is derived from Syriac kimiya which in its turn goes back to Greek chymeía chemeía "the art of casting or alloying metals" · (see Liddell-Scott, Greek-English lexicon, 2013). The Arabs believed that al-kimiya was a loanword from Persian (Ibn Durayd, al-Djawaliki). from Hebrew (al- Akfani) or from Greek and had the meaning of ''artifice and acuteness" (al-hila wa 'l-hidhk, according to al-Khafadji) or "solution and division" (al-tahlil wa 'l-tafrik, according to Ibn Sallum, 11th/17th century). - Wikipedia: Manfred Ullmann (* 2.

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