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Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Waḥshīyah

(Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century)

Ibn Waḥshiyya (Arabic: ابن وحشية), died c. 930, was a Nabataean (Aramaic-speaking, rural Iraqi) agriculturalist, toxicologist, and alchemist born in Qussīn, near Kufa in Iraq. He is the author of the Nabataean Agriculture (Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya), an influential Arabic work on agriculture, astrology, and magic. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century: Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices (in Arabic and English; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), trans. by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall

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