Treat the dating and attribution as historiographic positions to check, not direct contemporary records. Do not assign every work or technical claim under the Latin name Geber to one eighth-century individual.
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Hirai contrasts the traditional personal attribution to Jabir with a multi-generation anonymous corpus interpretation and distinguishes Latin Geber writings from simple translations of the Arabic corpus. He links Summa perfectionis to Paul of Taranto as a modern attribution.
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Arabic Jabir and Latin Geber are different authorship problems
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Evidence
Hirai contrasts the traditional personal attribution to Jabir with a multi-generation anonymous corpus interpretation and distinguishes Latin Geber writings from simple translations of the Arabic corpus. He links Summa perfectionis to Paul of Taranto as a modern attribution.
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Islamic Alchemy IA05 — Arabic Jabir and Latin Geber are different authorship problems
Annotation
Treat the dating and attribution as historiographic positions to check, not direct contemporary records. Do not assign every work or technical claim under the Latin name Geber to one eighth-century individual.