Jabir ibn Hayyan

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Islamic scholar alchemist chemist person polymath

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.

Aliases (1)

Jābir ibn Ḥayyān ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic scholar → alchemist → chemist → person → polymath →
associatedWith	Abbasid Caliphate → House of Wisdom →
civilization	Islamic Golden Age →
culturalImpact	bridged Islamic and European scientific traditions →
era	8th century → 9th century →
fieldOfWork	alchemy → astronomy → chemistry → medicine → natural philosophy → philosophy →
honorificTitle	father of chemistry → father of early chemistry →
influenced	Islamic alchemy → Latin alchemical tradition → medieval European alchemy → medieval European chemistry →
influencedBy	Greek natural philosophy → Hellenistic alchemy → Islamic theology →
JabirianCorpusLanguage	Arabic →
JabirianCorpusReception	translated into Latin →
knownFor	description of chemical processes → experimental approach in alchemy → influence on Latin alchemical corpus → systematization of alchemy →
languageOfWork	Arabic →
legacy	foundational figure in history of chemistry → major authority in medieval alchemical literature →
name	Geber → Jabir ibn Hayyan → Jābir ibn Ḥayyān →
notableWork	Book of the Balances → 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 → Islamic science →
writingsAttributed	Jabirian corpus →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jabir ibn Hayyan → Jabir ibn Hayyan ("Jābir ibn Ḥayyān") →	name
Early Islamic period →	hasKeyFigure
Islamic Golden Age →	notableScholar