Ahmad ibn 'Imad al-Din

Persian physician and alchemist

Aḥmad ibn ‘Imād al-Dīn, Ahmad ibn Imad ad-Din (Arabic: أحمد بن عماد الدين) was a Persian physician and alchemist. He was probably from Nishapur in the 11th century.

He was the author of an alchemical treatise titled On the Art of the Elixir (or Fi sina‘at al-iksir) which is preserved in the National Library of Medicine.^[1]

No other copy has been identified, and the author is not listed in the published bibliographies of Islamic writers on alchemy. He wrote the alchemical treatise titled On the Art of the Elixir (or Fi sina‘at al-iksir), in which he describes various Chemical Reactions.

The manuscript copy is undated, but appears to be of the 17th or 18th century. In it, there is extensive marginalia giving citations from Jābir ibn Hayyān.

References

^ "Islamic Medical Manuscripts, Alchemy 54". Archived from the original on 13 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-18.

Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world

Alchemists

8th century	pseudo-Khālid ibn Yazīd (Calid) pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana
9th century	Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Geber)
10th century	Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Rhazes) Ibn Umayl (Senior Zadith) Ibn Waḥshiyya Maslama al-Qurṭubī Abū Manṣūr al-Muwaffaq al-Zahrāwī (Abulcasis)
11th century	pseudo-Avicenna al-Khawārizmī al-Kāthī al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs Aḥmad ibn ʿImād al-Dīn Ibn al-Wāfid (pharmacist)
12th century	al-Ṭughrāʾī Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs Artephius
13th century	al-Simāwī Ibn al-Bayṭār (pharmacist) Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Nabātī (pharmacist) Ḥasan al-Rammāḥ (engineer)
14th century	al-Jildakī Ibn al-Rassām Abū l-Ashbā ibn Tammām