Orient- und Islamwissenschaft

Publications

Articles

Christopher Braun and Regula Forster, The Alchemist’s work: Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs and the reception of his collection of alchemical poems Shudhūr al-dhahab. In: Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, 75/2, Special Issue: Alchemy in the Islamicate World, 2021, 611–636. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2020-0033

Regula Forster, Alchemical stanzaic poetry (muwashshaḥ) by Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (fl. twelfth century). In: Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, 75/2, Special Issue: Alchemy in the Islamicate World, 2021, 637–664. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2020-0009

Juliane Müller, Planets in Alchemy. Commentaries and Glosses on the Opening Verses of Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs’s Shudhūr al-dhahab, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 22, 2022, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.9570

Regula Forster and Juliane Müller, The Identity, Life and Works of the Alchemist Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (Identidad, vida y obra del alquimista Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs). In: al-Qanṭara 41ii (2020), 373-408. https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2020.010

Christopher Braun and Regula Forster, „Alchemist und Magier? Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (fl. 12. Jh.) im Kontext der arabisch-islamischen Gelehrsamkeit“. In: Eming, Jutta/Wels, Volkhard (eds.): Der Begriff der Magie in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2020 (Episteme in Bewegung 17), 15–34.

Regula Forster, „Reaching the goal of alchemy – or: What happens when you finally have created the philosophers’ stone?“ In: Studia Humana 9:1 (2020), 40–47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2020-0006

Regula Forster, „Zwischen Religion und Alchemie. Der Gelehrte Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (fl. 12. Jh.).“ In: SGMOIK SSMOCI Bulletin 48 (2019), 11-15. 
https://www.academia.edu/44838907/Zwischen_Religion_und_Alchemie_Der_Gelehrte_Ibn_Arfa’_ras_fl_12_Jh