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He is the author of ''Shudhur al-Dhahab'', a renowned work on theoretical and practical experiments in chemistry. It describes the properties of various metals and has provided detailed information on enamelled ceramics and the various techniques, methods and processes of industrial chemistry of the time. The famous book contains the greatest poetic alchemical text of the Muslim world. This book, one of the major books of Arab alchemical science, is adorned with stylized illustrations of stills (in the text) and more recent and well-delineated illustrations of alchemic equipment, which are found in the margins, drawn with red and black inks in glossy paper. The poem, 1460 verses, having as rhymes the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, is preserved today in a large number of manuscripts. Many commentaries on his alchemist poems come from his successors, inspired by his work, including the chemist Al Jildaki, and by him Maghreb chemistry is studied in the Mashriq.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUPkAQAAQBAJ&dq=al+jaldaki+ibn+arfa&pg=PA94 |title = Les fondateurs de la Chimie - Jabir Ibn-Hayyan (Geber) - M.I.Z. Ar-Razi (Rhazès)|isbn = 9782322032785|last1 = Boutammina|first1 = Nas E.|date = 2013-10-31}}</ref> |
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He is the author of ''Shudhur al-Dhahab'', a renowned work on theoretical and practical experiments in chemistry. It describes the properties of various metals and has provided detailed information on enamelled ceramics and the various techniques, methods and processes of industrial chemistry of the time. The famous book contains the greatest poetic alchemical text of the Muslim world. This book, one of the major books of Arab alchemical science, is adorned with stylized illustrations of stills (in the text) and more recent and well-delineated illustrations of alchemic equipment, which are found in the margins, drawn with red and black inks in glossy paper. The poem, 1460 verses, having as rhymes the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, is preserved today in a large number of manuscripts. Many commentaries on his alchemist poems come from his successors, inspired by his work, including the chemist Al Jildaki, and by him Maghreb chemistry is studied in the Mashriq.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUPkAQAAQBAJ&dq=al+jaldaki+ibn+arfa&pg=PA94 |title = Les fondateurs de la Chimie - Jabir Ibn-Hayyan (Geber) - M.I.Z. Ar-Razi (Rhazès)|isbn = 9782322032785|last1 = Boutammina|first1 = Nas E.|date = 2013-10-31}}</ref> |
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Virtually nothing is known of his life, except that he died in 1197 in ] in modern day Morocco.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/islamwissenschaft/personen/professoren/forster/snf-projekt.html |title=UZH - Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies - SNSF Project |access-date=2018-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208004633/https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/islamwissenschaft/personen/professoren/forster/snf-projekt.html |archive-date=2018-02-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=597 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110232048/http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=597 |archive-date=2013-11-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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Virtually nothing is known of his life, except that he died in 1197 in ] in modern day Morocco.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/islamwissenschaft/personen/professoren/forster/snf-projekt.html |title=UZH - Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies - SNSF Project |access-date=2018-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208004633/https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/islamwissenschaft/personen/professoren/forster/snf-projekt.html |archive-date=2018-02-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=597 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110232048/http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=597 |archive-date=2013-11-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
