Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari I (1136-1206) was an important Arab Muslim scholar, inventor, and mechanical engineer during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). Al-Jazari was named after the area in which he was born, Al-Jazira - the traditional Arabic name for what is now northern Iraq and northeastern Syria, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, corresponding to Mesopotamia. Like his father before him, he served as a chief engineer to the Ortukids, … Wikipedia
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