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Jabir ibn Hayyan

جابر بن حيان ar جابر بن حیان fa

8th-century Islamic alchemist and author

Dated 721 CE – 815 CE
Also called Jābir ibn Hayyān, Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jabir ibn al-Hayyan

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Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Jabir ibn Hayyan 8th-century Islamic alchemist and author

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