Badīʿ Az-Zaman Abu L-ʿizz Ibn Ismāʿīl Ibn Ar-Razāz Al-Jazarī

Style: Abbasid Period;

Place: Jazirat Ibn Umar Or Al-Jazira

Born: 1136

Death: 1206

Biography:

Al-Jazari was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan, artist and mathematician from the Artuqid Dynasty of Jazira in Mesopotamia. He is best known for writing The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices in 1206, where he described 50 mechanical devices, along with instructions on how to construct them. He is credited with the invention of the elephant clock. He has been described as the 'father of robotics' and modern day engineering.