[INDOLOGY] Alchemy and South Asia

[Paolo Eugenio Rosati]

Dear Fabrizio,

thank you very much for pointing me out Mir Mahmud. I am far more
interested in biographies than in alchemy. It should be relevant for my
purposes also to know if we have any document (hopefully in Latin)
regarding Indian alchemists in European royal courts or in the Middle-East
and North Africa.

Sincerely,
Paolo

Il giorno gio 8 ott 2020 alle ore 13:21 Fabrizio Speziale <
spezialef at yahoo.com> ha scritto:

> Dear Paolo,
>
> there is the case of Mir Mahmud (d. 1689), a Sufi master of the
> Ni'matullahi order who migrated from Iraq to the Hyderabad in the Deccan
> and to which alchemical knowledge is attributed in hagiographical sources.
> On Mir Mahmud you can check my articles which however do not focus on
> alchemy:
>
> “À propos du renouveau ni‘matullāhī. Le centre de Hyderabad au cours de la
> première modernité”, *Studia Iranica*, 42, 2013, p. 91-118.
>
> « The *mujaddid* and the *majdhūb*. Shāh ‘Alī Riḍā (d. 1215/1801) and the
> Different Narratives of the Ni‘mat Allāhī Renewal », in Denis Hermann –
> Mathieu Terrier, eds., *Shi‘i Sufism in Modern Times*, London, I. B.
> Tauris – Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2020, pp. 157-174.
>
> I also mention several Sufis expert in alchemy who however were Indian
> Muslims, in my work *Soufisme, religion et médecine en Islam indien*.
> Paris, Karthala, 2010.
>
> All the best,
>
> Fabrizio
>
>
>
> Fabrizio Speziale
> Directeur d’études - Professor
> École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
> Center for South Asian Studies
> 54 Boulevard Raspail
> 75006, Paris
>
> http://www.perso-indica.net/
> https://ehess.academia.edu/FabrizioSpeziale
>
>
>
>
> Il giovedì 8 ottobre 2020, 12:19:11 CEST, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> ha scritto:
>
>
> Dear Dagmar,
>
> Yes, I did. But I would like to understand if any European or Arabic
> alchemist went to South Asia or had any contact with South Asian alchemists
> or royal courts in pre-Modern time.
>
> Best wishes,
> Paolo
>
> Il giorno gio 8 ott 2020 alle ore 06:22 Dagmar Wujastyk <
> d.wujastyk at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> Dear Paolo,
> You may have heard of Marco Polo's description of alchemists in India and
> also of Al Biruni describing rasāyana.
> Both accounts are featured in David White's The Alchemical Body. There is
> also the story of Siddha Iramatevar/ Yakoppu visiting Mecca.
> I don't know of any journeys by European or Arabic alchemists to the
> Indian subcontinent. However, Fabrizio Speziale may know something about
> that: He has been working on Persian sources on alchemy and iatrochemistry
> and these may feature accounts of visiting or at least corresponding
> alchemists.
> Very best wishes,
> Dagmar
>
>
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