Re: Early Arabic Book on Perfumemaking

[Guest guest]

>The Arabian chemist, Al-Kindi (Alkindus), wrote in the 9th century a book on

perfumes which he named Book of the Chemistry of Perfume and Distillations. It

contained more than a hundred recipes for fragrant oils, salves, aromatic waters

and substitutes or imitations of costly drugs. The book also described 107

methods and recipes for perfume-making, and even the perfume making equipment,

like the alembic, still bears its Arabic nameal-Hassani, Woodcok and Saoud

(2006) 1001 Inventions; Muslim Heritage in Our World, FSTC, p.22.

Does anyone have a copy of this book in English? How about in a word file or

PDF?

Thanks,

Kiler<

I don't but would love to find out if anyone else does too!

Carol

[Guest guest]

> The Arabian chemist, Al-Kindi (Alkindus), wrote in the 9th century a book on

perfumes which he named Book of the Chemistry of Perfume and Distillations.>

I have found that there is a German translation of this book

http://www.amazon.de/Kitab-Kimiya-al-itr-wa-t-tasidat-Destillationen/dp/38298707\

79/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1242150066 & sr=1-15

Maybe someone in the group can help.

Bella

from Tel Aviv

[Guest guest]

unluckily all it said was that the book was currently unavailable and

that there were no customer reviews.....

Ambrosia

http://www.perfumebynature.com.au

[Guest guest]

> unluckily all it said was that the book was currently unavailable and

> that there were no customer reviews.....

:-)))

yes, but there is the ISBN and the publisher name (published in 2002) so maybe

someone speaking (reading) German can make a search for someone selling this

book. Maybe there is also a digital library (like archive or Gallica) where we

could search.

Bella

from Tel Aviv

[Guest guest]

So, armed with the ISBN, Here is the only site selling it:

http://www.directshopper.de/9783829870771-Kitab-Kimiya-al--itr-wa-t-tas-idat-Kin\

di--Ya-qub-ibn-Ishaq-al--__p

$87 Euros plus shipping, but I did not see a shipping option to the USA or even

outside EU.

Of course My German is abysmal...

[Guest guest]

>

http://www.directshopper.de/9783829870771-Kitab-Kimiya-al--itr-wa-t-tas-idat-Kin\

di--Ya-qub-ibn-Ishaq-al--__p

>

> $87 Euros plus shipping, but I did not see a shipping option to the USA or

even outside EU.

> Of course My German is abysmal...

Good work :-)

My parents live in Paris so I could eventually ship to them and then outside EU,

but at the end the book will be very expensive, and I am afraid to be

disappointed. Maybe we can try to contact the publisher, or stick for now to the

old books available on the net.

Bella

from Tel Aviv

[Guest guest]

Geez is the book written in Arabic? Imagine

trying to translate that. That book in

English would be worth it's weight in gold.

Jaylee

Dragonfly Creek Farm

Oregon

[Guest guest]

> Geez is the book written in Arabic? Imagine

> trying to translate that. That book in

> English would be worth it's weight in gold.

It's a German translation.

Bella

from Tel Aviv