Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world
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Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world was a philosophical and proto-scientific tradition that emerged from earlier Greco-Roman and Hellenistic influences and significantly evolved in the Islamic Golden Age (approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries). Islamic alchemy encompassed a range of practices, beliefs, and theories about the nature of matter, transformation, and the pursuit of knowledge, blending concepts from science, mysticism, and spiritual philosophy.
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