Do not confuse with Geber, 13th cent. [n91-061231]
BM (Jābir ibn Ḣaiyān, al-Ṫarasūsī)
His Dix traités d'alchimie, c1983 t.p. (Jâbir ibn Hayyân)
Encycl. of Islam (Djābir b. Ḥayyān; b. ʻAbd Allāh al-Kūfī; works compiled during the last half of the 9th cent., 1st half of the 10th cent.; not the same as Latin writer of the 13th cent. known as Geber)
LC data base, 9-23-85 (hdg.: Jābir ibn Ḥayyān; usage: Ǧābir) LC manual auth. cd. (variants: Jābir ibn Ḥayyān or Ḥaiyān)
Encyc. Brit., 1978 (Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā; b. c. 721; d. c. 815; alchemist and the father of Arab chemistry)