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Ismail al-Jazari

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Ismail al-Jazari
Titleal-Jazari
Personal
Born1136 CE
Jazira, Artuqid Dynasty[1]
Died1206 CE
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
The elephant clock was one of the most famous inventions of al-Jazari.

Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206, Arabic: بَدِيعُ الزَّمانِ أَبُو العِزِّ بْنُ إسْماعِيلَ بْنِ الرَّزَّازِ الجَزَرِيّ, IPA: [ældʒæzæriː]) was a Muslim polymath:[2] a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan and artist from the Artuqid Dynasty of Jazira in Mesopotamia. He is best known for writing The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Arabic: كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية, romanized: Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya, lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks', also known as Automata) in 1206, where he described 50 mechanical devices, along with instructions on how to construct them. One of his more famous inventions is the elephant clock.[3] He has been described as the "father of robotics" and modern day engineering.[4]

  1. ^ al-Jazari, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices: Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya, transl. & anno. Donald R. Hill. (1973), Springer Science+Business Media.
  2. ^ Burman, Thomas E. (2022). The Sea in the Middle The Mediterranean World, 650–1650. University of California Press. p. 254.
  3. ^ Beckwith 1997, p. 290.
  4. ^ Jorge Elices (30 July 2020). "Ismail al-Jazari, the Muslim inventor whom some call the 'Father of Robotics'". National Geographic. National Geographic Society. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

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