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Jabir ibn Hayyan

Jabir ibn Hayyan is associated with alchemy, chemical operations, and the transmission of laboratory ideas.

BORN c. 721 CE · Tus or Kufa, debatedDIED c. 815 CE · Kufa, IraqERA Early Abbasid

NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION

Became the namesake of a large alchemical corpus influential in Islamic and Latin traditions.

THE RECORD

The historical authorship of the Jabirian corpus is debated.
Texts linked to him discuss distillation, crystallization, and classification of substances.
His legacy influenced later chemistry-like traditions in Arabic and Latin.