HFM 050 | History’s Greatest Alchemists, Part 2: Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) Medieval Islam’s Foremost Intellectual Who Was Most Concerned with The Alchemy of Happiness, with Travis Dow of the History of Alchemy Podcast
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The foremost intellectual in the medieval Islamic world was a theologian, juristic, mystic, and philosophy. He wrote a landmark treatise in which he attempted to construct a unified explanation of human knowledge. But what was the branch of knowledge that he thought tied in all the sciences together? Alchemy, of course!
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The foremost intellectual in the medieval Islamic world was a theologian, juristic, mystic, and philosophy. He wrote a landmark treatise in which he attempted to construct a unified explanation of human knowledge. But what was the branch of knowledge that he thought tied in all the sciences together? Alchemy, of course!
Check out Travis’ History of Alchemy Podcast by clicking here.
Like this podcast?
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TRANSCRIPT