al-Jazari

Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī was a polymath, scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, artisan and artist from the Jazira in Mesopotamia of the Artuqid period.

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Who was born first?

• al-Jazari was born 1 year after Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
• al-Jazari was born 1 year after Léonin
• al-Jazari was born 2 years before Guiraut de Bornelh
• al-Jazari was born 2 years after Basava
• al-Jazari was born 36 years after Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥ

Timeline

1. Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥcirca 1100 – circa 1160
2. Basava1134–1196
3. Léonincirca 1135 – circa 1201
4. Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsīcirca 1135 – 1213
5. al-Jazari (this page)1136–1206
6. Guiraut de Bornelhcirca 1138 – 1215

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