- Born: 1136
- Died: 1206
- Full name: Abū al-'Iz Ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī
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- Areas of expertise: Iraqi polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer
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أَبُو اَلْعِزِ بْنُ إسْماعِيلِ بْنُ الرِّزاز الجزري from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who lived during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). He is best known for writing the Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.
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