Ismail al-Jazari

Ismail al-Jazari was a Kurdish polymath. He was born in 1136 in Cizre (current southeastern 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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