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Jābirian Alchemy (A Translation of the Introduction and Chapter One, Section One of Jābir Ibn ayyān: Contribution to the History of Scientific Ideas in Islam: Jābir and Greek Science) 1 Paul Kraus (Translated from French by Keven Brown) Introduction The first volume of this work was devoted to the study of literary problems arising from the ...
Eliezer Paul Kraus, 11 December 1904 – 10 or 12 October 1944, was a Jewish Arabist born in Prague. He is the author of a number of seminal works on early Arabic philosophy, with a special focus on Arabic alchemy and chemistry. Some of his writings on this subject are still standard reference works in the field today.
Paul Kraus (1904-1944) was a many-talented historian of medieval Arabie scienee who wrote an infiuential work on J8bir ibn I,Iayyan (the Latin «Geber») and the medieval alchemieal tradition, two volumes of
The content, produced by Paul Kraus and other scholars, includes notes, letters, drafts, offprints, transcriptions, translations, bibliographies, and handwritten copies of manuscripts. It ranges in date from 1913-1996, with the bulk dating from 1931-1943 and a large amount of undated material.
1 gru 1999 · The dramatic nature of Kraus's life, whieh ended in his suicide, reveals the high aft'eetive ties that characterized Sarton's circle of Arabists.
The death of an Orientalist: Paul Kraus from Prague to Cairo. In: The Jewish discovery of Islam. Studies in honor of Bernard Lewis. Ed. M. Kramer. Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1999. S. 181-223. Glick, Thomas F.: From the Sarton papers: Paul Kraus and islamic alchemy. In: Cronos 2 ...
Topics covered include Arabic literature, Islamic philosophy, Arab medicine, and Muslim scholarship. The offprints were originally collected by Paul Kraus, an Arabist born in Praugue in 1904. Kraus was educated in Europe and spent several years in Cairo and the Middle East before his death in 1944.