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PORTFOLIO OF ISLAMIC SCHOLARS/SCIENTISTS

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  NAME OF THE SCHOLAR: Abu al-’Izz Isma’il ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari PROFILE Al-Jazari is best known as the first Arab mechanical engineer. He earned popularity for inventing machines. He was not only an engineer by his occupation but also an inventor, scientist, a skilled worker of handmade designs, and a mathematician. He worked on the concepts behind the moving parts of machines of earlier Greek and Muslim scholars. Al-Jazari gathered his lifetime work and wrote it in a book. [1] Facts Al-Jazari is known as the ‘Father of Robotics’ today. Because he was the first to design machines that ran in repeating rounds by themselves. He wrote a book in 1206 known as ‘The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices’. This book gives basic knowledge of how to build machines and their parts. Around a hundred mechanical devices are introduced in this book and the ways to build and run them. After a few centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian scientist, was inspired by Al-Jazari’s wor