Jabir ibn Hayyan
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Jabir ibn Hayyan was a pioneering polymath often regarded as the father of early chemistry (alchemy), whose works profoundly influenced Islamic and later European scientific thought.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jabir ibn Hayyan canonical | 17 |
| Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan | 1 |
| Jabir ibn Hayyan (traditional attribution) | 1 |
| Jābir ibn Ḥayyān | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Jabir ibn Hayyan Context triple: [Islamic Golden Age, notableScholar, Jabir ibn Hayyan]
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Avicenna
Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."
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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier was an 18th-century French chemist widely regarded as the "father of modern chemistry" for his pioneering work on the law of conservation of mass and the nature of chemical reactions.
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Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab was an influential 10th–11th century Persian calligrapher renowned for refining and codifying classical Arabic scripts, particularly in Qur’anic manuscripts.
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Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi was a pioneering 10th-century Islamic philosopher and polymath, often called the “Second Teacher” after Aristotle, whose works profoundly shaped medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Jabir ibn Hayyan Target entity description: Jabir ibn Hayyan was a pioneering polymath often regarded as the father of early chemistry (alchemy), whose works profoundly influenced Islamic and later European scientific thought.
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A.
Avicenna
Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."
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B.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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C.
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier was an 18th-century French chemist widely regarded as the "father of modern chemistry" for his pioneering work on the law of conservation of mass and the nature of chemical reactions.
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D.
Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab was an influential 10th–11th century Persian calligrapher renowned for refining and codifying classical Arabic scripts, particularly in Qur’anic manuscripts.
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E.
Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi was a pioneering 10th-century Islamic philosopher and polymath, often called the “Second Teacher” after Aristotle, whose works profoundly shaped medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
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alchemist ⓘ chemist ⓘ person ⓘ polymath ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abbasid Caliphate
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House of Wisdom ⓘ |
| civilization | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | bridged Islamic and European scientific traditions ⓘ |
| era |
8th century
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9th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
alchemy
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astronomy ⓘ chemistry ⓘ medicine ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
father of chemistry
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father of early chemistry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Islamic alchemy
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Latin alchemical tradition ⓘ medieval European alchemy ⓘ medieval European chemistry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Greek natural philosophy
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Hellenistic alchemy ⓘ Islamic theology ⓘ |
| JabirianCorpusLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| JabirianCorpusReception | translated into Latin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
description of chemical processes
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experimental approach in alchemy ⓘ influence on Latin alchemical corpus ⓘ systematization of alchemy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| legacy |
foundational figure in history of chemistry
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major authority in medieval alchemical literature ⓘ |
| name |
Geber
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Jabir ibn Hayyan self-link ⓘ Jabir ibn Hayyan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
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| notableWork |
Book of the Balances
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Book of the Kingdom ⓘ Kitab al-Kimya ⓘ Kitab al-Rahma al-Kabir ⓘ Kitab al-Sab'in ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| status | historicity debated by modern scholars ⓘ |
| tradition |
Islamic alchemy
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Islamic science ⓘ |
| writingsAttributed | Jabirian corpus ⓘ |
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Referenced by (20)
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