Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma'il al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Du'ali al-Kināni al-Tughra'i (Arabic:العميد فخر الكتاب مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الصمد الدؤلي الكناني الطغرائي) (1061 – c. 1121) was apoet andalchemist.^[1]

Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Tughra'i was born inIsfahan, Persia, and composed poems in the Arabic language. He was an administrative secretary (therefore the nameTughra'i'). He ultimately became the second-most-senior official (after thevizier) in the civil administration of theSeljuq Empire.^[2]

Al-Tughra'i had been appointed vizir to Emir Ghiyat-ul-Din Mas'ud, and upon the death of the emir a power struggle ensued between Mas'ud's sons. Al-Tughra'i sided with the emir's elder son, but the younger prevailed. In retribution, the younger son accused al-Tughra'i of heresy and had him beheaded.^[2]

Al-Tughra'i was a well-known and prolific writer onastrology andalchemy, and many of his poems (diwan) are preserved today as well. In the field of alchemy, al-Tughra'i is best known for his large compendium titledMafatih al-rahmah wa-masabih al-hikmah, which incorporated extensive extracts from earlier Arabic alchemical writings, as well asArabic translations fromZosimos of Panopolis's old alchemy treatises written inGreek, which were until 1995 erroneously attributed to unknown alchemists by mistakes and inconsistencies in the transliteration and transcription of his name into Arabic.^[3]

In 1112 CE, al-Tughra'i also composedKitab Haqa'iq al-istishhad, a rebuttal of a refutation of the occult in alchemy written byIbn Sina.

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• Peacock, A.C.S. (2013). "'Imad al-Din al-Isfahani'sNusrat al-fatra, Seljuq politics and Ayyubid origins". In Hillenbrand, Robert; Peacock, A. C. S.; Abdullaeva, Firuza (eds.).Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. I.B. Tauris.
• El Khadem, H. S. (1996)."A Translation of a Zosimos' Text in an Arabic Alchemy Book"(PDF).Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.84 (3):168–178. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved2006-10-12.
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For his life, see:

• F. C. de Blois, 'al-Tughra'i' inThe Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, ed. by H. A. R. Gibb, B. Lewis, Ch. Pellat, C. Bosworth et al., 11 vols. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1960–2002), vol. 10, pp. 599–600.

For a list of his alchemical writings, see:

• Manfred Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband VI, Abschnitt 2 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), pp 229–231 and 252–3.
• For details about Zosimos of Panopolis translations, see:El Khadem, H. S. (September 1996)."A Translation of a Zosimos' Text in an Arabic Alchemy Book"(PDF).Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.84 (3):168–178. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved2006-10-12.

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