Editing Jabir ibn Hayyan (section)

=== Secondary sources ===

* {{cite book|last1=al-Hassan|first1=Ahmad Y.|author-link=Ahmad Y. al-Hassan|year=2009|title=Studies in al-Kimya': Critical Issues in Latin and Arabic Alchemy and Chemistry|location=Hildesheim|publisher=Georg Olms Verlag|isbn=978-3-487-14273-9}} (the same content and more is also available [http://www.history-science-technology.com/ online]) (argues against the great majority of scholars that the Latin Geber works were translated from the Arabic and that [[ethanol]] and [[mineral acids]] were known in early Arabic alchemy)
* {{cite journal|last1=Burnett|first1=Charles|year=2001|title=The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Program in Toledo in the Twelfth Century|journal=Science in Context|volume=14|issue=1–2|pages=249–288|doi=10.1017/S0269889701000096|s2cid=143006568}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Capezzone|first1=Leonardo|year=1997|title=Jābir ibn Ḥayyān nella città cortese. Materiali eterodossi per una storia del pensiero della scienza nell'Islam medievale|journal=Rivista degli Studi Orientali|volume=LXXI|issue=1/4 |pages=97–144|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41880991|jstor=41880991}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Capezzone|first1=Leonardo|year=2020|title=The Solitude of the Orphan: Ǧābir b. Ḥayyān and the Shiite Heterodox Milieu of the Third/Ninth–Fourth/Tenth Centuries|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|volume=83|issue=1|pages=51–73|doi=10.1017/S0041977X20000014|s2cid=214044897|doi-access=free}} (recent study of Jabirian [[Shia Islam|Shi'ism]], arguing that it was not of a form of [[Isma'ilism]], but an independent sectarian current related to the late 9th-century Shi'ites known as [[ghulat|ghulāt]])
* {{cite journal|last1=Corbin|first1=Henry|author-link=Henry Corbin|year=1950|title=Le livre du Glorieux de Jâbir ibn Hayyân|journal=Eranos-Jahrbuch|volume=18|issue=|pages=48–114}}
* {{cite book|last1=Corbin|first1=Henry|author-link=Henry Corbin|year=1986|title=Alchimie comme art hiératique|location=Paris|publisher=L’Herne|isbn=9782851971029}}
* {{cite book|last1=Coulon|first1=Jean-Charles|year=2017|title=La Magie en terre d'Islam au Moyen Âge|location=Paris|publisher=CTHS|isbn=9782735508525}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Delva |first1=Thijs |year=2017 |title=The Abbasid Activist Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār as the Father of Jābir b. Ḥayyān: An Influential Hypothesis Revisited |journal=Journal of Abbasid Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=35–61 |doi=10.1163/22142371-12340030}} (rejects Holmyard 1927's hypothesis that Jabir was the son of a proto-[[Shia Islam|Shi'ite]] pharmacist called Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār on the basis of newly available evidence; contains the most recent [[status quaestionis]] on Jabir's biography, listing a number of [[primary source]]s on this subject that were still unknown to Kraus 1942–1943)
* {{cite journal|last1=El-Eswed|first1=Bassam I.|year=2006|title=Spirits: The Reactive Substances in Jābir's Alchemy|journal=Arabic Sciences and Philosophy|volume=16|issue=1|pages=71–90|doi=10.1017/S0957423906000270|s2cid=170880312}} (the first study since the days of [[Marcellin Berthelot|Berthelot]], [[Henry Ernest Stapleton|Stapleton]], and [[Julius Ruska|Ruska]] to approach the Jabirian texts from a modern chemical point of view)
* {{cite journal|last1=Fück|first1=Johann W.|author-link=Johann Fück|year=1951|title=The Arabic Literature on Alchemy According to An-Nadīm (A.D. 987)|journal=Ambix|volume=4|issue=3–4|pages=81–144|doi=10.1179/amb.1951.4.3-4.81}}
* {{cite thesis|last1=Gannagé|first1=Emma|year=1998|title=Le commentaire d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise In de generatione et corruptione perdu en grec, retrouvé en arabe dans Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyān, Kitāb al-Taṣrīf|type=Unpublished PhD diss.|publisher=Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Holmyard|first1=Eric J.|author-link=Eric John Holmyard|year=1923|title=Jābir ibn Ḥayyān|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=16|issue=|pages=46–57|doi=10.1177/003591572301601606|doi-access=free|pmid=19983239 }} (pioneering paper first showing that a great deal of Jabir's non-religious alchemical treatises are still extant, that some of these treatises contain a sophisticated system of natural philosophy, and that Jabir knew the sulfur-mercury theory of metals)
* {{cite book|last1=Holmyard|first1=Eric J.|author-link=Eric John Holmyard|year=1927|chapter=An Essay on Jābir ibn Ḥayyān|editor1-last=Ruska|editor1-first=Julius|editor1-link=Julius Ruska|title=Studien zur Geschichte der Chemie: Festgabe [[Edmund Oscar von Lippmann|Edmund O. v. Lippmann]]|location=Berlin|publisher=Springer|pages=28–37|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-51355-8_5|isbn=978-3-642-51236-0 }} (seminal paper first presenting the hypothesis that Jabir was the son of a proto-[[Shia Islam|Shi'ite]] pharmacist called Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār)
* {{cite book|last1=Kraus|first1=Paul|author-link=Paul Kraus (Arabist)|year=1930|chapter=Dschābir ibn Ḥajjān und die Ismāʿīlijja|editor1-last=Ruska|editor1-first=Julius|editor1-link=Julius Ruska|title=Dritter Jahresbericht des Forschungsinstituts für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Mit einer Wissenschaftlichen Beilage: Der Zusammenbruch der Dschābir-Legende|location=Berlin|publisher=Springer|pages=23–42|oclc=913815541}} (seminal paper arguing that the Jabirian writings should be dated to ca. 850–950; the first to point out the similarities between Jabirian [[Shia Islam|Shi'ism]] and early [[Isma'ilism]])
* {{cite journal|last1=Kraus|first1=Paul|author-link=Paul Kraus (Arabist)|year=1931|title=Studien zu Jābir ibn Hayyān|journal=Isis|volume=15|issue=1|pages=7–30|doi=10.1086/346536|jstor=224568|s2cid=143876602|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/224568.pdf}} (contains further arguments for the late dating of the Jabirian writings; analyses Jabir's accounts of his relations with the [[Barmakids]], rejecting their historicity)
* {{cite journal|last1=Kraus|first1=Paul|author-link=Paul Kraus (Arabist)|year=1942|title=Les dignitaires de la hiérarchie religieuse selon Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyān|journal=Bulletin de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale|volume=41|issue=|pages=83–97|doi=10.3406/bifao.1942.2022 |url=https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/41/8/}} (pioneering paper on Jabirian proto-[[Shia Islam|Shi'ism]])
* {{Cite book|last=Kraus|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Kraus (Arabist)|year=1942–1943|title=Jâbir ibn Hayyân: Contribution à l'histoire des idées scientifiques dans l'Islam. I. Le corpus des écrits jâbiriens. II. Jâbir et la science grecque|publisher=Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale|location=Cairo|oclc=468740510|isbn=978-3-487-09115-0}} (vol. 1 contains a pioneering analysis of the sources for Jabir's biography, and a catalogue of all known Jabirian treatises and the larger collections they belong to; vol. 2 contains a seminal analysis of the Jabirian philosophical system and its relation to Greek philosophy;  remains the standard reference work on Jabir even today)
* {{cite book|last1=Laufer|first1=Berthold|author1-link=Berthold Laufer|date=1919|title=Sino-Iranica: Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in Ancient Iran|series=Fieldiana, Anthropological series|volume=15|issue=3|location=Chicago|publisher=Field Museum of Natural History|oclc=1084859541|url=https://archive.org/details/sinoiranicachine153lauf/page/504/mode/2up}}
* {{cite book|last1=Lory|first1=Pierre|author-link=Pierre Lory|year=1983|title=Jâbir ibn Hayyân: Dix traités d'alchimie. Les dix premiers Traités du Livre des Soixante-dix|location=Paris|publisher=Sindbad|isbn=9782742710614}} (elaborates Kraus's suggestion that the Jabirian writings may have developed from an earlier core, arguing that some of them, even though receiving their final redaction only in ca. 850–950, may date back to the late 8th century)
* {{cite book|last1=Lory|first1=Pierre|author-link=Pierre Lory|year=1989|title=Alchimie et mystique en terre d'Islam|location=Lagrasse|publisher=Verdier|isbn=9782864320913}} (focuses on Jabir's religious philosophy; contains an analysis of Jabirian [[Shia Islam|Shi'ism]], arguing that it is in some respects different from [[Isma'ilism]] and may have been relatively independent)
* {{cite book|last1=Lory|first1=Pierre|author-link=Pierre Lory|date=1994|chapter=Mots d'alchimie, alchimie des mots|editor1-last=Jacquart|editor1-first=D.|title=La formation du vocabulaire scientifique et intellectuel dans le monde arabe|series=Civicima |volume=7 |location=Turnhout|publisher=Brepols|pages=91–106|doi=10.1484/M.CIVI-EB.4.00077|isbn=978-2-503-37007-1}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Lory|first1=Pierre|author-link=Pierre Lory|year=2000|title=Eschatologie alchimique chez jâbir ibn Hayyân|journal=Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée|volume=91–94|issue=91–94|pages=73–92|doi=10.4000/remmm.249|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Lory|first1=Pierre|author-link=Pierre Lory|year=2016a|title=Aspects de l'ésotérisme chiite dans le Corpus Ǧābirien: Les trois Livres de l'Elément de fondation|journal=Al-Qantara|volume=37|issue=2|pages=279–298|doi=10.3989/alqantara.2016.009|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite book|last1=Lory|first1=Pierre|author-link=Pierre Lory|date=2016b|chapter=Esotérisme shi’ite et alchimie. Quelques remarques sur la doctrine de l’initiation dans le Corpus Jābirien|editor1-last=Amir-Moezzi|editor1-first=Mohammad Ali|editor1-link=Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi|editor2-last=De Cillis|editor2-first=Maria|editor3-last=De Smet|editor3-first=Daniel|editor4-last=Mir-Kasimov|editor4-first=Orkhan|title=L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements – Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments|series=Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses|volume=177|location=Turnhout|publisher=Brepols|pages=411–422|doi=10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.4.01179|isbn=978-2-503-56874-4}}
* {{cite book|last1=Marquet|first1=Yves|year=1988|title=La philosophie des alchimistes et l'alchimie des philosophes — Jâbir ibn Hayyân et les « Frères de la Pureté »|location=Paris|publisher=Maisonneuve et Larose|isbn=9782706809545}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Moureau|first1=Sébastien|year=2020|title=Min al-kīmiyāʾ ad alchimiam. The Transmission of Alchemy from the Arab-Muslim World to the Latin West in the Middle Ages|journal=Micrologus|volume=28|issue=|pages=87–141|hdl=2078.1/211340|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/211340}} (a survey of all Latin alchemical texts known to have been translated from the Arabic)
* {{cite journal|last1=Newman|first1=William R.|author-link=William R. Newman|year=1985|title=New Light on the Identity of Geber|journal=Sudhoffs Archiv|volume=69|issue=1|pages=76–90|jstor=20776956|pmid=2932819|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20776956}}
* {{cite book|last1=Newman|first1=William R.|author-link=William R. Newman|year=1991|title=The Summa perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber: A Critical Edition, Translation and Study|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-09464-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZ-WXuo84ioC}}
* {{cite book|last1=Newman|first1=William R.|author-link=William R. Newman|year=1996|chapter=The Occult and the Manifest among the Alchemists|editor1-last=Ragep|editor1-first= F. Jamil|editor2-last=Ragep|editor2-first=Sally P.|editor3-last=Livesey|editor3-first=Steven|title=Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre-Modern Science held at the University of Oklahoma|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|pages=173–198|isbn=978-90-04-10119-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kl1COWj9ubAC&q=Tradition,+Transmission,+Transformation:+Proceedings+of+Two+Conferences+on+Pre-Modern+Science+held+at+the+University}}
* {{cite book|last1=Nomanul Haq|first1=Syed|author-link=Syed Nomanul Haq|year=1994|title=Names, Natures and Things: The Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Aḥjār (Book of Stones)|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Kluwer|isbn=9789401118989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rydrCQAAQBAJ}} (signalled some new sources on Jabir's biography; followed Sezgin 1971 in arguing for an early date for the Jabirian writings)
* {{Cite journal|last=Norris|first=John|year=2006|title=The Mineral Exhalation Theory of Metallogenesis in Pre-Modern Mineral Science|journal=Ambix|volume=53|issue=1|pages=43–65|doi=10.1179/174582306X93183|s2cid=97109455}} (important overview of the sulfur-mercury theory of metals from its conceptual origins in ancient Greek philosophy to the 18th century; discussion of the Arabic texts is brief and dependent on secondary sources)
* {{cite journal|last1=Ruska|first1=Julius|author1-link=Julius Ruska|year=1923a|title=Sal ammoniacus, Nušādir und Salmiak|journal=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse|volume=14|issue=5|doi=10.11588/diglit.38046}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Ruska|first1=Julius|author1-link=Julius Ruska|year=1923b|title=Über das Schriftenverzeichnis des Ǧābir ibn Ḥajjān und die Unechtheit einiger ihm zugeschriebenen Abhandlungen|journal=Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin|volume=15|pages=53–67|jstor=20773292|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20773292}}
* {{cite book|last1=Ruska|first1=Julius|author1-link=Julius Ruska|year=1927|chapter=Die siebzig Bücher des Ǵābir ibn Ḥajjān|editor1-last=Ruska|editor1-first=Julius|editor1-link=Julius Ruska|title=Studien zur Geschichte der Chemie: Festgabe [[Edmund Oscar von Lippmann|Edmund O. v. Lippmann]]|location=Berlin|publisher=Springer|pages=38–47|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-51355-8_6|isbn=978-3-642-51236-0 }}
* {{cite journal|last1=Ruska|first1=Julius|author1-link=Julius Ruska|year=1928|title=Der Salmiak in der Geschichte der Alchemie|journal=Zeitschrift für angewandte Chemie|volume=41|issue=50|pages=1321–1324|doi=10.1002/ange.19280415006|bibcode=1928AngCh..41.1321R }}
* {{cite journal|last1=Ruska|first1=Julius|author1-link=Julius Ruska|last2=Garbers|first2=Karl|year=1939|title=Vorschriften zur Herstellung von scharfen Wässern bei Gabir und Razi|journal=Der Islam|volume=25|issue=|pages=1–34|doi=10.1515/islm.1938.25.1.1|s2cid=161055255}} (contains a comparison of Jabir's and [[Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi|Abū Bakr al-Rāzī]]'s knowledge of chemical apparatus, processes and substances)
* {{cite book|last1=Sarton|first1=George|author-link=George Sarton|year=1927–1948|title=Introduction to the History of Science|volume=I–III|location=Baltimore|publisher=Williams & Wilkins|oclc=476555889}}
* {{cite book|last1=Sezgin|first1=Fuat|author-link=Fuat Sezgin|year=1971|title=Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Band IV: Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430 H.|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|pages=132–269|isbn=9789004020092}} (contains a penetrating critique of Kraus’ thesis on the late dating of the Jabirian works)
* {{cite journal|last1=Stapleton|first1=Henry E.|author1-link=Henry Ernest Stapleton|year=1905|title=Sal Ammoniac: A Study in Primitive Chemistry|journal=Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=I|issue=2|pages=25–40|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228305/page/n35/mode/2up}}
* {{cite journal <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|last1=Stapleton|first1=Henry E.|author1-link=Henry Ernest Stapleton|last2=Azo|first2=R.F.|last3=Hidayat Husain|first3=M.|year=1927|title=Chemistry in Iraq and Persia in the Tenth Century A.D.|journal=Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|volume=VIII|issue=6|pages=317–418|oclc=706947607|url=http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.100203/231270}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Starr|first1=Peter|year=2009|title=Towards a Context for Ibn Umayl, Known to Chaucer as the Alchemist Senior|journal=Journal of Arts and Sciences|volume=11|issue=|pages=61–77|url=http://jas.cankaya.edu.tr/gecmisYayinlar/yayinlar/jas11/05%20Peter%20STARR.pdf|access-date=28 November 2020|archive-date=25 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925055537/http://jas.cankaya.edu.tr/gecmisYayinlar/yayinlar/jas11/05%20Peter%20STARR.pdf|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite book|last1=Ullmann|first1=Manfred|year=1972|title=Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-03423-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FosEtQEACAAJ}}
* {{cite thesis|last1=Watanabe|first1=Masayo|date=2023|title=Nature in the Books of Seven Metals – Ǧābirian Corpus in Dialogue with Ancient Greek Philosophy and Byzantine Alchemy|type=PhD thesis|publisher=University of Bologna|url=http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10571}}
* {{Cite book|last=Weisser|first=Ursula|editor1-first=<!-- Deny Citebot -->|editor1-last=<!-- Deny Citebot -->|title=Das "Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung" von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana|publisher=[[De Gruyter]]|year=1980|isbn=978-3-11-086693-3|location=Berlin|doi=10.1515/9783110866933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZFZzxgiUqAC}}