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al-Jazari
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mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
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Al-Jazari was a male mathematician, inventor, writer, and engineer who lived from 1164 to 1206. Born in Upper Mesopotamia, he was an Arab Muslim citizen of the Artuqids. His professional fields included ulema, automaton, and mechanical engineering. He died in Turkey. Al-Jazari is distinct from Ibn al-Jazari.
His works are held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The subject is referenced by 104 other encyclopedia articles. Note that separate records for an author named Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Jazarī (1350–1429) and a United States-based artist with similar naming exist, but these are distinct entities.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1350
- Died
- 1429
- Works
- 55
Top works
- 1. Khaṣāʾiṣ al-musnad "musnad al-Imām Aḥmad li-al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī Mūsá al-Madīnī." 2. al-maṣʻad al-Aḥmad fī khatm musnad al-Imām Aḥmad
- Asmá al-Manāqib fī Tahdhīb Asná al-Maṭālib fī manāqib al-Imām Amīr al-Mūʾminīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
- Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī
- Manāqib al-asad al-ghālib mumzaq al-kitāʼib wa-muẓahhar al-ʻajāʼib Layth ibn Ghālib, Amīr al-Muʼminīn Abī al-Ḥusayn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭalib
- Sharḥ al-Jazarīyah
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-04-13
Discography
- Back Up Train1967
- Green Is Blues1969
- Gets Next to You1971
- Let’s Stay Together1972
- I’m Still in Love With You1972
- Call Me1973
- Livin’ for You1973
- Explores Your Mind1974
- Al Green Is Love1975
- Full of Fire1976
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 14,105x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,231x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Artuqids
- Place of birth
- Upper Mesopotamia
- Place of death
- Turkey
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Field of work
- mechanical engineering
- Image
- Ismail al jazari.jpg
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- Commons category
- Al-Jazari
- date of birth
- 1164-00-00
- date of death
- 1206-01-01
- ethnic group
- Arabs
- has works in the collection
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- different from
- Ibn al-Jazari
- Commons Creator page
- Badi` Al-Jazari
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
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, [ældʒæzæriː]) was a polymath, 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. He has been described as the "father of robotics" and modern day engineering.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “al-Jazari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.