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Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (Arabic: جابر بن حیان‎, Persian: جابر حیان‎‎, often given the nisbahs al-al-Bariqi, al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi or al-Sufi; fl. c. 721 – c. 815), also known as Geber, was a prominent polymath (nonfiction).

Biography

Jabir was 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.

He is sometimes referred to as the father of early chemistry.

As early as the 10th century, the identity and exact corpus of works of Jabir 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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