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.

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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 self-link
Jabir ibn Hayyan self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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

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Islamic Golden Age notableScholar Jabir ibn Hayyan
Jabir ibn Hayyan name Jabir ibn Hayyan self-link
Jabir ibn Hayyan name Jabir ibn Hayyan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Early Islamic period hasKeyFigure Jabir ibn Hayyan
Ja'far al-Sadiq teacherOf Jabir ibn Hayyan
this entity surface form: Jabir ibn Hayyan (traditional attribution)
Geber nameInLatin Jabir ibn Hayyan
Geber alsoKnownAs Jabir ibn Hayyan
Geber alsoKnownAs Jabir ibn Hayyan
this entity surface form: Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-Kimya author Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-Kimya traditionalAttribution Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-Sab'in author Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-Sab'in attributedTo Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-Rahma al-Kabir author Jabir ibn Hayyan
Kitab al-Rahma al-Kabir attributedTo Jabir ibn Hayyan
Book of the Balances author Jabir ibn Hayyan
Book of the Balances attributedTo Jabir ibn Hayyan
Jabirian corpus traditionallyAttributedTo Jabir ibn Hayyan
Jabirian corpus associatedWith Jabir ibn Hayyan
Book of the Kingdom author Jabir ibn Hayyan
Book of the Kingdom attributedTo Jabir ibn Hayyan