JÄbir ibn HayyÄn
Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyān (Arabic ابو موسى جابر بن حيان, DMG Abū Mūsā ibn Hayyan Ǧābir, Latinized donors Jeber, Yeber ) is the name of a controversial in its historical existence of the author, who according to Arab tradition in the second half of the 8. century is said to have worked. As a student of the sixth Imam al-Sadiq Ǧafār is projected Jabir a hermetic school, and an extensive work in natural philosophy - alchemical writings have left.
The " Corpus Gabirianum " and the " Pseudo-Geber "
The rediscovery Ǧābirs for the History of Science in chemistry and alchemy was initiated by Hermann Kopp in the 19th century, however, who had no independent access to the Arab Ǧābir texts and despite his own doubts about the authenticity of some of the examined him Latin writings no critical distinction undertook. As a result of corrections in particular by Berthelot, Kraus and Newman is distinguished in research today is among the Corpus Gabirianum (also Ǧābir corpus, in English-language literature corpus Jabirianum ) of Arabic scripts, which include at least three Latin translations can be assigned ( Liber de septuaginta, misericordiae Liber, Liber Triginta verborum ), and the late medieval Latin Corpus Geberi or pseudo - encoder, which in 13-14. Century, probably originated in Italy and in no closer thematic relationship to the corpus Ǧābirianum stands, but has messed up the history of the natural sciences and their technological tools sustained due to the erroneous attribution to ibn Hayyan Ǧābir.
Among the Latin writings can for their historically important, probably written by one Peter de Taranto Summa perfectionis magisterii and based on it, but originating from various other authors writings De investigatione perfectionis, De inventione veritatis and Liber fornacum and registered for the Testamentum Geberi Indiae apply due to the researches Newman assignment to the late medieval Corpus pseudo sensors as a secured while for other Latin tradition, the relationship with possible templates in Arabic Corpus Gabirianum partly still in need of clarification and the history of European vernacular transfers from Latin is still largely unexplored.
The genesis and write the Arabic Corpus Gabirianum for which Kraus 3000 Arab writings and miscellanea evidence is, in contrast, remained controversial. According to the findings of Kraus, who has been found in many parts of the research agreement, including the Arabic corpus as a whole is to be considered as a pseudepigraphisches and did not occur only in a milieu dominated ismailitic before the end of the 9th century. As the author of a portion ( 500 ) of these writings suspected Kraus thereby al - Ḥasan ibn at - Naikd because his friend Abū Sulaimān as- Siǧistāni ( † after 981 ) reported that this own books issued as writings Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyāns and thus in alchemy enthusiastic readers " a decent sum of money earned" have.
This view has since been particularly strongly contradicted by Fuat Sezgin, the Arab writings continued to be mainly a single author, the Ǧābir ibn Hayyan ascribes to the Arab tradition, which was born before 725 and died about 812. A mediating position assumes, among other things Hossein Nasr, who holds on to the historicity Ǧābirs and its dating to the 8th century (according to Nasr ca 721 -ca. 815) and within the corpus Gabirianum a distinction between the authentic writings of this author and later pseudepigraphic products an Ismaili Brotherhood advocated.