“The most important collection of Arabic alchemical texts was supposedly written by Jabir ibn Hayyan, but... the writings, known collectively as the Jabirian Corpus, were the work of a Muslim sect... Isma'iliya... completed by 987, but probably compiled over... several generations. ...[H]ow much, if any ...is due to [Jabir] is not known.”

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