A.I. Sabra

Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra (1924-2013) was a professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam. He died December 18, 2013. Sabra provided English translation and commentary for Books I-III of Ibn al-Haytham's seven book Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), written in Arabic in the 11th century.

Sabra ya sami digiri na farko a Jami'ar Alexandria . Daga nan ya yi karatun falsafar kimiyya tare da Karl Popper a Jami'ar London, inda ya sami digirin digirin digirgir a 1955 don rubutun kan gani a karni na 17. Ya koyar a Jami'ar Alexandria 1955-62, a Cibiyar Warburg 1962-72, kuma a Jami'an Harvard daga 1972 har sai da ya yi ritaya a 1996.

A cikin labarinsa game da "The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam", ya yi jayayya, a kan ka'idodin Pierre Duhem, cewa al'adun Islama ba su karɓa ba kuma sun adana kimiyyar Girka ta dā, amma suna aiki sosai kuma sun gyara shi.

A shekara ta 2005 an ba shi lambar yabo ta Sarton don nasarorin da ya samu a tarihin kimiyya ta Tarihin Kimiyya. 

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 1954. "Lura game da gyare-gyaren da aka ba da shawarar na Newton's Corpuscular Theory of Light don daidaita shi da gwajin Foucault na 1850." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5, shafi na 149-51. 
 1967 Ka'idodin Haske daga Descartes zuwa Newton, (Oldbourne), (reprint Cambridge University Press, 1981), shafuka 363.
 1984. "The Andalusian Revolt Against Ptolemaic Astronomy: Averroes and al-Bitrûjî. " shafi na 233-53 a cikin Everett Mendelsohn, ed. Canji da Hadisi a cikin Kimiyya: Rubuce-rubuce don girmama I. Bernard Cohen . Cambridge: Jami'ar Cambridge Press. 
 1987. "The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam. " Tarihin Kimiyya 25, shafi na 223-43. 
 1996. "Situating Arabic Science: Locality versus Essence," Isis, 87, pp. 654-670 (reprinted in Michael H. Shank, ed., The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 215-31).  

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Rukuni:Haifaffun 1924
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2013