# Jabir ibn Hayyan

> The name attached to over two hundred medieval Arabic treatises that invented systematic chemistry - including the first instructions for isolating an inorganic compound from organic matter - though the author was likely not one man but a circle of Shi'ite alchemists writing under a shared ghost.

*8th-century Islamic alchemist and author*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jabir-ibn-hayyan

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 721
- **Died:** 815
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

The Jabirian corpus, dated to roughly 850-950, covered everything from cosmology and medicine to logic and grammar, but its core was alchemy and the theory it called "the science of the balance" - an attempt to reduce all matter to measurable proportions. The works contain the oldest systematic classification of chemical substances and the sulfur-mercury theory of metals that dominated mineralogy into the eighteenth century. They also carried early Shi'ite theological doctrines, attributed to the Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq. By the tenth century, Islamic scholars already doubted whether a single historical Jabir existed. Modern consensus holds that the name was a pseudonym for an anonymous school of alchemists. In the thirteenth century, a European writer adopted the Latinized form - Geber - and began producing new works under the borrowed mask.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 69.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 17.6 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 8.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Astronomy, #Philosophy, #Mathematics, #Medicine, #Chemistry, #Medieval Era

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- [Jabir ibn Hayyan](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Dżabir Ibn Hajjan](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BCabir_Ibn_Hajjan)
- [Джабир ибн Хайян](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F%D0%BD)
- [Jabir ibn Hayyan](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Jabir ibne Haiane](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibne_Haiane)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167852)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Jabir%20ibn%20Hayyan)
- [Jàbir ibn Hayyan](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A0bir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [جابیر کوڕی حەییان](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%95%DB%8C_%D8%AD%DB%95%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86)
- [Geber](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber)
- [Geber](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber)
- [Dschābir ibn Hayyān](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dsch%C4%81bir_ibn_Hayy%C4%81n)
- [Τζαμπίρ ιμπίν Χαϋάν](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AF%CF%81_%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%BD_%CE%A7%CE%B1%CF%8B%CE%AC%CE%BD)
- [Ĝabir ibn Hajjan](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%9Cabir_ibn_Hajjan)
- [Ŷabir ibn Hayyan](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%B6abir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Jabir ibn Hayyan](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [جابر بن حیان](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86)
- [Geber](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber)
- [Jabir ibn Hayyan](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [借彪](https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%80%9F%E5%BD%AA)
- [Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musa_Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Jabir Ibn Hayyan](https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_Ibn_Hayyan)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [ג'אבר בן חיאן](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%97%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9F)
- [자비르 이븐 하이얀](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%90%EB%B9%84%EB%A5%B4_%EC%9D%B4%EB%B8%90_%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%80)

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