Ebu Musa Câbir bin Hayyan

Ebu Musa Câbir bin Hayyân  ابو موسی جابربن حیان
Avrupa'da çizilmiş "Geber" (15. yüzyıl), Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
Doğum	Cābir ibn Hayyān 721/722 Horasan, İran
Ölüm	808/815 Kufe, Irak
Yaşadığı yer	Abbâsî Halifeliği
Meslek	Fen, Simya, Eczacılık, Metalürji, Astroloji, Felsefe, Fizik ve Müzik
Dönem	İslam'ın Altın Çağı
Edebî akım	Felsefe, Sufilik, Matematik, Astroloji, Astronomi, Fizik, Kimya ve Ecza
Etkiledikleri Zû’l-Nûn el-Mısrî, Kindî
Etkilendikleri İmâm Câʿfer es-Sâdık

Ebû Mûsa Câbir bin Hayyân (Arapça: ابو موسی جابربن حیان, Latince: "Geber" ya da "Geberus"; (al-Barigi Kabilesi / al-Azdi / al-Kufi / al-Tusi / al-Sufi)^[1], (doğum: 721, Tus, İran, Horasan; ölüm: 815, Kufe, Irak)^[2] Batıda daha ziyâde Geber olarak tanınan, Abbâsîler döneminde yaşamış ve İslâmiyet'te fen bilimlerinin temelini atmış olan Farsî çok yönlü bir fen bilgini; simyacı, kimyacı ve eczacı; fizikçi, astronom ve astrolog; tıp ve fizik tedavi uzmanı; mühendis, coğrafyacı, filozof ve sûfi.

Hayâtı

Tus, İran'da eğitimini aldıktan sonra Kûfe'ye göç etti. Câbir bin Hayyân bilinen ilk pratik Simya (Alşimi) âlimdir.^[3] Orta Çağ Avrupası'nın Simya alanına büyük ölçüde etki etmiş ve Kimya'nın da esasını oluşturmuştur. İmâm Câʿfer-i Sâdık'ın öğrencisidir.

İcâtları

Kimyager ve Eczacı olan bir babanın oğlu olarak Horasan'da doğmuş ve Yemen'de okuduktan sonra Kufe'ye giderek Abbâsî halifesi Harun Reşid'e saray âlimi olarak hizmet etmiştir.

"İmbik"

Kimya dışında Eczacılık, Metalürji, Astroloji, Felsefe, Fizik ve Müzik gibi geniş alanda 400 ü aşan eser bıraktığı söylenirse de ancak 20 civarında eseri bugüne kalmıştır.

Nitrik asit, Hidrojen klorür ve Sülfürik asit'in rafine ve kristalize yöntemlerini bulduğu Kral suyu'nu icat ettiği ve Sitrik asit, Asetik asit, Tartarik asiti keşfetiği düşünülmektedir. "İmbik" ( الأنبيق al-inbiq) geliştirmiş ve kendisinin ortaya attığı Baz kavramıyla Kimya'nın gelişmesine katkıda bulunmuştur.

Ayrıca daha sonra zehirlilerin zehirlisi olan arsenik tozunu elde eden ilk kişidir.

Agathondaemon, Hermes Trismegistus, Pisagor ve Sokrates'i saydığı ve Eski Yunan, Eski Mısır ve Şia Sufizminden etkilendiği düşünülmektedir.

Eserlerinden 12. yüzyılında Latince'ye çevirilmiş olan Kitab al-Kimya adlı eseri, Simya ve Kimya kelimelerinin kökeni olmuştur.

Kaynakça

1. S.N. Nasr, "Life Sciences, Alchemy and Medicine", The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge, Volume 4, 1975, p. 412: "Jabir is entitled in the traditional sources as al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi, al-Sufi. There is a debate as to whether he was an Arab from Kufa who lived in Khurasan or a Persian from Khorasan who later went to Kufa or whether he was, as some have suggested, of Syrian origin and later lived in Persia and Iraq".
2. "Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 8 Mayıs 2008 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. http://web.archive.org/web/20080508163842/http://www.britannica.com:80/eb/article-9043128/Abu-Musa-Jabir-ibn-Hayyan#261644.toc. Erişim tarihi: 11 February 2008. 
3. Julian, Franklyn, Dictionary of the Occult, Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-7661-2816-4, ISBN 978-0-7661-2816-3, p. 8.

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• William R. Newman, The Occult and Manifest Among the Alchemist", in F. J. Ragep, Sally P Ragep, Steven John Livesey, "Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on pre-Modern science held at University of Oklahoma", Brill,1996/1997, pg 178:"This language of extracting the hidden nature formed an important lemma for the extensive corpus associated with the Persian alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan"
• Henry Corbin, "The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy", Translated by Joseph H. Rowe,North Atlantic Books, 1998. pg 45: "The Nisba al-Azdin certainly does not necessarily indicate Arab origin. Geber seems to have been a client of the Azd tribe established in Kufa
• Tamara M. Green, "The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) ", Brill, 1992. pg 177: "His most famous student was the Persian Jabir ibn Hayyan (b. circa 721 C.E.), under whose name the vast corpus of alchemical writing circulated in the medieval period in both the east and west, although many of the works attributed to Jabir have been demonstrated to be likely product of later Ismaili' tradition."
• David Gordon White, "The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India", University of Chicago Press, 1996. pg 447
• William R. Newman, Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature, University of Chicago Press, 2004. pg 181: "The corpus ascribed to the eight-century Persian sage Jabir ibn Hayyan.."
• Wilbur Applebaum, The Scientific revolution and the foundation of modern science, Greenwood Press, 1995. pg 44: "The chief source of Arabic alchemy was associated with the name, in its Latinized form, of Geber, an eighth-century Persian."
• Neil Kamil,Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots New World, 1517-1751 (Early America: History, Context, Culture), JHU Press, 2005. pg 182: "The ninth-century Persian alchemist Jabir ibn Hay- yan, also known as Geber, is accurately called pseudo-Geber since most of the works published under this name in the West were forgeries"
• Aleksandr Sergeevich Povarennykh, Crystal Chemical Classification of Minerals, Plenum Press, 1972, v.1, ISBN 0-306-30348-5, page 4: The first to give separate consideration to minerals and other inorganic substances were the following: The Persian alchemist Jabir (721-815)...
• George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, Pub. for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, by the Williams & Wilkins Company, 1931, vol.2 pt.1, page 1044: Was Geber, as the name would imply, the Persian alchemist Jabir ibn Haiyan?
• Dan Merkur, in The psychoanalytic study of society (eds. Bryce Boyer, et al.), vol. 18, Routledge, ISBN 0-88163-161-2, page 352: I would note that the Persian alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan developed the theory that all metals consist of different "balances" ...
• Anthony Gross, The Dissolution of the Lancastrian Kingship: Sir John Fortescue and the Crisis of Monarchy in Fifteenth-century England, Paul Watkins, 1996, ISBN 1-871615-90-9, page 19: Ever since the Seventy Books attributed to the Persian alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan had been translated into Latin .... Sebastian, Anton,A Dictionary of the History of Science, (Casterton Hall: Parthenon Publishing Group Ltd, 2001),241. Geber or Jabir is held to be the first practical alchemist. Julian, Franklyn, Dictionary of the Occult, Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-7661-2816-4, 9780766128163, p. 8.