# 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:** 68.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 24.8 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 43.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #107

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

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167852)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Jabir%20ibn%20Hayyan)
- [جابر بن حيان](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86)
- [جابر بن حیان](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86)
- [Cabir ibn Həyyan](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabir_ibn_H%C9%99yyan)
- [Жәбир ибн Хәйән](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D3%99%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D3%99%D0%B9%D3%99%D0%BD)
- [Джабір ібн Хаян](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%96%D1%80_%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD)
- [জাবির ইবনে হায়য়ান](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8)
- [Džabir ibn Hajjan](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEabir_ibn_Hajjan)
- [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)
- [Wikiquote](https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Hayyan)
- [Djabir ibn Hajjan](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djabir_ibn_Hajjan)
- [جابر بن حيان](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86)

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