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| 7 October 2024 | 17:00 | Monday Majlis: On Animals, Stones, and Alphabets: The 14th-Century Egyptian Alchemist Aydamir al-Jildakī and His Natural EncyclopaediaDespite his large and – in his time – well-received oeuvre, the Egyptian scholar Aydamir al-Jildakī (fl. middle of the 14th century) so far is known to specialists of Islamic alchemy only. Yet, Manfred Ullmann, writing in 1972, insisted that he was one of the “greatest scholars of the Islamic cultural sphere”. In his natural encyclopaedia entitled Durrat al-ghawwāṣ (“The diver’s pearl”), al-Jildakī treats the whole sublunar nature, from humans to animals, plants, and minerals. Perhaps following Qur’anic concepts of sign (āya), he also considers languages and scripts as part of the ordered natural world. This paper will offer an introduction to al-Jildakī and his concepts of nature and culture and thus into concepts of post-classical Arabic science.. Full details | Add event |