Ismail Al-Jazari: Mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State
Ismail Al-Jazari was a polymath.
He was born in 1136 in Cizre (current Turkey) during the Islamic Golden Age. He was simultaneously a scholar, an inventor, a mechanical engineer, an artisan, an artist, and a mathematician. Just like his father before him, he served as the chief engineer at the Artuklu Palace. He died in 1206.
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