Template talk:Islamic alchemy and chemistry

Major rewrite January 2021

 * Removed the names of those to whom alchemical works were falsely ascribed and of whom no such work is extant: Ja'far al-Sadiq, Dhul-Nun al-Misri
 * Removed legendary figures of whom no works whatsoever are known: Harbi al-Himyari
 * Added "pseudo-" to the names of those to whom alchemical works were falsely ascribed, some of which are extant: Khālid ibn Yazīd (moved to eighth century, which is the earliest projected date for the pseudo-Khalid works); Maslama al-Majriti (the Rutbat al-hakim is now securely attributed to Maslama ibn Qasim al-Qurtubi, on whom an article should be written, and then pseudo-al-Majriti can be removed); Avicenna; Artephius
 * Removed names of whom no alchemical, chemical, or pharmacological works are known: Abbas ibn Firnas, Ziryab, Al-Zahrawi; Ibn al-Nadim
 * Added "(pharmacist)" to the names of those who were known but for pharmacology rather than for chemistry as such: Al-Biruni, Ibn al-Baitar, Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati; added "(engineer)" to Hasan al-Rammah for the same reason
 * Removed names of those whose positive contributions to alchemy or chemistry were either very small or non-existent: al-Kindī, al-Fārābī, Al-Biruni; Miskawayh; Al-Khazini; Al-Jawbari; Abu al-Salt, Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi, Farid al-Din al-Attar; Mansur al-Kamili
 * Cleared up and disambiguated names: "Al-Tamimi" is normally known as "Ibn Umayl"; there are many al-Razi's (e.g., Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, who also knew some chemistry), but this is Abu Bakr al-Razi; Al-Simawi is normally known as "al-Iraqi"; Al-Jaldaki has recently been shown to have actually been called "al-Jildaki" (see the article)

There are probably still too many names on this list: those scholars who knew some chemistry but did not really contribute anything significant should probably be removed from this template. On the other hand, chemistry did not just disappear from the Islamic world in the fifteenth century, and this list really suffers from the narrow and exclusive attention given by scholarship to those figures who would be important to later European history. Names from significant Muslim alchemists from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century should be added in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apaugasma (talk • contribs) 20:44, 12 January 2021 (UTC)