Ibn Wahshiyya

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ibn Wahshiyya was a Nabataean and Assyrian writer, alchemist, agriculturalist, Egyptologist and historian born at Qusayn near Kufa in Iraq. He was known in early modern Europe as Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih. A reference to Ibn Wahshiyya is made in the archaeological mystery Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. Ibn al-Nadim (in Kitab al-Fihrist) list a large number of books on magic, statues, offerings, agriculture, alchemy, physics and medicine, that were either written, or translated from older books, by Ibn Wahshiyya. His works on Alchemy were co-authored with an Alchemist named Abu Talib al-Zalyat, their works were used by Shams al-Din al-Dimashki.