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Ismail al-Jazari - Wikipedia
Al-Jazarī (1136–1206) was a polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, and mathematician from Jazirat ibn Umar (current Cizre). He is best known for writing the The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.