Al-Jazari
E87479
Al-Jazari was a pioneering 12th–13th century Muslim engineer and inventor renowned for his influential book on mechanical devices and automata, which significantly advanced the fields of robotics and engineering.
Aliases (1)
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim
→
engineer → inventor → mechanical engineer → person → polymath → robotics pioneer → |
| associatedWithPlace |
Jazira (al-Jazira region)
→
|
| birthDate |
c. 1136
→
|
| centuryActive |
12th century
→
13th century → |
| citizenship |
Artuqid dynasty
→
|
| contributedTo |
practical engineering handbooks
→
systematic classification of mechanical devices → |
| deathDate |
1206
→
|
| describedIn |
Islamic Golden Age science and technology
→
|
| employer |
Artuqid dynasty
→
|
| fieldOfWork |
automata
→
engineering → hydraulics → mechanics → robotics → timekeeping → |
| genre |
technical treatise
→
|
| givenName |
Ismāʿīl
→
|
| honorific |
Badiʿ al-Zaman
→
|
| influenced |
development of robotics
→
history of engineering → later European engineering → mechanical design in the Islamic world → |
| knownFor |
design of automata
→
detailed descriptions of mechanical devices → innovative clocks → programmable mechanisms → use of crank-connecting rod mechanisms → water-raising machines → |
| languageOfWork |
Arabic
→
|
| name |
Badiʿ al-Zaman Abū al-ʿIzz Ismāʿīl ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī
→
|
| notableInvention |
automatic hand-washing device
→
castle clock → elephant clock → musical automata → programmable humanoid automata → water-raising machines powered by waterwheels → |
| notableWork |
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
→
|
| originalTitle |
Kitāb fī maʿrifat al-ḥiyal al-handasiyya
→
|
| positionHeld |
chief engineer
→
court engineer → |
| region |
Upper Mesopotamia
→
|
| religion |
Islam
→
|
| workedFor |
Artuqid rulers of Diyarbakır
→
|
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Al-Jazari
("Badiʿ al-Zaman Abū al-ʿIzz Ismāʿīl ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī")
→
|
name |
|
Islamic Golden Age
→
|
notableScholar |