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Jabir ibn Hayyan
Islamic alchemist and polymath
For other people known as Jabir, see Jabir.
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Arabic: أَبو موسى جابِر بِن حَيّان, variously called al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī), died c. 806−816, is the purported author of a large number of works in Arabic, often called the Jabirian corpus. The c. 215 treatises that survive today mainly deal with alchemy and chemistry, magic, and Shi'ite religious philosophy. However, the original scope of the corpus was vast, covering a wide range of topics ranging from cosmology, astronomy and astrology, over medicine, pharmacology, zoology and botany, to metaphysics, logic, and grammar.
The works attributed to Jabir, which are tentatively dated to c. 850 – c. 950,[1] contain the oldest known systematic classification of chemical substances, and the oldest known instructions for deriving an inorganic compound (sal ammoniac or ammonium chloride) from organic substanc
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Jabir Ibn Haiyan (760 - 803 C.E.)
Jabir Ibn Haiyan, the alchemist Geber of the mittpunkt Ages, is generally known as the father of chemistry. Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan, sometimescalled al-Harraniand al-Sufi, was the son of the druggist (Attar). The precise date of his birth is the subject of some discussion, but it is established that he practised medicine and alchemy in Kufa around 776 C.E.
He is reported to have studied under Imam Ja'far Sadiq and the Ummayed prince Khalid Ibn Yazid. In his early days, he practised medicin and was under the patronage of the Barmaki Vizir during the Abbssid Caliphate of Haroon al-Rashid. He shared some of the effects of the downfall of the Barmakis and was placed under house arrest in Kufa, where he died in 803 C.E.
Jabir's major contribution was in the field of chemistry. He introduced experimental investigation into alchemy, which rapidly changed its character into modern chemistry. On the ruins of his well-known laboratory re
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Jabir ibn Hayyan
Arab and Muslim Physicians and Scholars Jabir ibn Hayyan Samir S. Amr,* Abdelghani Tbakhi † From the *Dhahran Health Center, Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and †Department of Pathology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Correspondence and reprint requests: Samir S. Amr, MD Saudi Aramco P.O. kartong 8341 Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia T: +966 3 877-6789 F: +966 3 877-6783 samir.amr@aramco.com A bu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan Al-Azdi, sometimes called al-Harrani and al-Sufi, is considered the father of Arab chemistry and one of the founders of modern pharmacy. He was known to the Europeans as Geber. He was born in the city of Tus in the province of Khorasan in Iran in 721 AD. His father Hayyan Al-Azdi was an “ Attar” (druggist or pharmacist) from the Arabian Azd tribe in Yemen, who resided in the city of Kufa in Iraq during the rule of the Umayyads. Hayyan supported the Abbasid revolt against the Umayyads a