Jābir ibn Hayyān

Chemist, Inventor

0721 – 0815

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Who was Jābir ibn Hayyān?

Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān was a prominent Persian polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. Born and educated in Tus, he later traveled to Kufa. Jābir is held to have been the first practical alchemist.

As early as the 10th century, the identity and exact corpus of works of Jābir was in dispute in Islamic circles. His name was Latinized as "Geber" in the Christian West and in 13th-century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as Pseudo-Geber, produced alchemical and metallurgical writings under the pen-name Geber.

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Born
0721
Tous
Also known as
  • Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan
  • Jabir bin Hayyan
  • Geber
Religion
  • Shia Islam
  • Islam
Ethnicity
  • Persian people
  • Arab people
Nationality
  • Umayyad Caliphate
Profession
Died
0815
Kufa

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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