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Ibn Wahshiyah (fl. 9th century/10th century) was a Nabataean Arab writer, alchemist, agriculturalist
Muslim Agricultural Revolution

The Islamic Golden Age from the 8th century to the 13th century witnessed a fundamental transformation in agriculture known as the Arab Agricultural Revolution, Medieval Green Revolution, or Muslim Agricultural Revolution....
, Egyptologist
Egyptology

Egyptology is a major field of archaeology, the study of ancient Egyptian History of Egypt, Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian literature, Ancient Egyptian religion, and Art of ancient Egypt from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century....
 and historian born at Qusayn near Kufa
Kufa

Kufa is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000....
 in Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. He was known in early modern Europe
Early modern Europe

Early modern is the term used by historians to refer to a period in the history of Western Europe and its first colony which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century....
 as Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih.

A reference to Ibn Wahshiyah is made in the archaeological mystery Labyrinth
Labyrinth (book)

Labyrinth is an archaeological mystery English-language novel written by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and present-day France. It was published in 2005....
 by Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an England author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth , which has been translated into more than 37 languages....
.

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Ibn al-Nadim

Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad bin Ishaq al-Nadim , whose father was known as al-Warraq was a of unknown origin although some sources refer to him as Persian people Shi'ite Muslim scholar and bibliographer....
 (in Kitab al-Fihrist) list a large number of books on magic
Magic

Magic may refer to:* Magic , anything that is not explainable by any present laws of science.** Magical thinking** Folk magic, traditional systems of magic...
, statues, offerings, agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, alchemy
Alchemy

Alchemy , a part of the Occult Tradition, is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties....
, physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
 and medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, that were either written, or translated from older books, by Ibn Wahshiyah.

s thought that he wrote or translated a book called Nabataean Agriculture (Kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya) (c.






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Ibn Wahshiyah (fl. 9th century/10th century) was a Nabataean Arab writer, alchemist, agriculturalist
Muslim Agricultural Revolution

The Islamic Golden Age from the 8th century to the 13th century witnessed a fundamental transformation in agriculture known as the Arab Agricultural Revolution, Medieval Green Revolution, or Muslim Agricultural Revolution....
, Egyptologist
Egyptology

Egyptology is a major field of archaeology, the study of ancient Egyptian History of Egypt, Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian literature, Ancient Egyptian religion, and Art of ancient Egypt from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century....
 and historian born at Qusayn near Kufa
Kufa

Kufa is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000....
 in Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. He was known in early modern Europe
Early modern Europe

Early modern is the term used by historians to refer to a period in the history of Western Europe and its first colony which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century....
 as Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih.

A reference to Ibn Wahshiyah is made in the archaeological mystery Labyrinth
Labyrinth (book)

Labyrinth is an archaeological mystery English-language novel written by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and present-day France. It was published in 2005....
 by Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an England author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth , which has been translated into more than 37 languages....
.

Works

Ibn al-Nadim
Ibn al-Nadim

Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad bin Ishaq al-Nadim , whose father was known as al-Warraq was a of unknown origin although some sources refer to him as Persian people Shi'ite Muslim scholar and bibliographer....
 (in Kitab al-Fihrist) list a large number of books on magic
Magic

Magic may refer to:* Magic , anything that is not explainable by any present laws of science.** Magical thinking** Folk magic, traditional systems of magic...
, statues, offerings, agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, alchemy
Alchemy

Alchemy , a part of the Occult Tradition, is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties....
, physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
 and medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, that were either written, or translated from older books, by Ibn Wahshiyah.

Agriculture

It is thought that he wrote or translated a book called Nabataean Agriculture (Kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya) (c. 904), a major treatise on the subject, which was said to be based on ancient Babylonian sources. The book extols Babylonian-Aramean-Syrian
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 civilization
Civilization

A civilization is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in towns and city....
 against that of the conquering Arabs. It contains valuable information on agriculture and superstitions, and in particular discusses beliefs attributed to the Sabeans
Sabians

The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
 that there were people before Adam
Pre-Adamite

Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Preadamism is the religious belief that humans existed before Adam and Eve, the first human being named in the Bible....
, that Adam
Adam

Adam was, according to the Book of Genesis, the First man or woman created by God and noted in subsequent Jewish, Christian and Islamic commentary....
 had parents and that he came from India
History of India

The known history of India begins with the Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, from c....
. These ideas were discussed by the Jewish philosophers Judah ben Samuel Halevi
Yehuda Halevi

Judah Halevi, in full Judah ben Shemuel Ha-Levi, also Yehuda Halevi, or Yehuda ben Samuel Halevi was a Sephardic philosopher and poet....
 and Maimonides
Maimonides

Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon , the Rambam, and Musa ibn Maymun , was born in C?rdoba, Spain, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204.....
, through which they became an influence on the seventeenth century French Millenarian Isaac La Peyrère
Isaac La Peyrère

Isaac La Peyr?re, or Pererius, was a French Millenarian theologian and formulator of Pre-Adamite theory....
.

Egyptology

Ibn Wahshiyya was one of the first historians to be able to at least partly decipher what was written in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, by relating them to the contemporary Coptic language
Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic languages language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century....
 used by Copt
Copt

A Copt is a native Egyptian people Christianity. Copts form a major ethno-religious group that has ancient origins. Copts are Egyptians whose ancestors embraced Christianity in the first century....
ic priests in his time. An Arabic manuscript of Ibn Wahshiyya's book Kitab Shawq al-Mustaham, a work that discusses a number of ancient alphabets, in which he deciphered a number of Egyptian hieroglyphs, was later read by Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century Germany Society of Jesus scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of Orientalism, geology, and medicine....
 in the 17th century, and then translated and published in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 by Joseph Hammer in 1806 as Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; with an Account of the Egyptian Priests, their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices in the Arabic Language by Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih, 16 years before Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion

Jean-Fran?ois Champollion was a France classical academia, philology and orientalism.Champollion deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs with the help of groundwork laid by his predecessors: Athanasius Kircher, Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Akerblad, Thomas Young , and William John Bankes....
's complete decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book was known to Silvestre de Sacy
Silvestre de Sacy

Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy , was a France linguist and orientalist.Sacy was born in Paris to a Civil law notary named Abraham Silvestre, of Jewish origin....
 a colleague of Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion

Jean-Fran?ois Champollion was a France classical academia, philology and orientalism.Champollion deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs with the help of groundwork laid by his predecessors: Athanasius Kircher, Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Akerblad, Thomas Young , and William John Bankes....
. Dr Okasha El Daly, at University College London
University College London

University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
's Institute of Archaeology, claims that some hieroglyphs had been decoded by Ibn Wahshiyah, eight centuries earlier than Champollion deciphered the Rosetta stone
Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian Artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphsic writing....
.

See also

  • Islamic science
    Islamic science

    Science in medival Islam, also known as Islamic science, is a term used in the history of science to refer to the science developed in the Muslim world between 7th and 16th centuries, a period also known as the Islamic Golden Age....
  • List of Arab scientists and scholars
    List of Arab scientists and scholars

    This is a list of scientists and scholars from the Arab World and Islamic Spain that lived from Ancient history up until the beginning of the Modern era, consisting primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages....
  • Muslim Agricultural Revolution
    Muslim Agricultural Revolution

    The Islamic Golden Age from the 8th century to the 13th century witnessed a fundamental transformation in agriculture known as the Arab Agricultural Revolution, Medieval Green Revolution, or Muslim Agricultural Revolution....