al-Jazarī, Badīʿ al-Zamān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Jazarī, Badīʿ al-Zamān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Jaritz, Gerhard

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060193
Doc. NO	:	ALei590
Main Entry	:	Jaritz, Gerhard
Title & Author	:	al-Jazarī, Badīʿ al-Zamān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Jaritz, Gerhard
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,235 words)
Abstract	:	Badīʿ al-Zamān Abū l-ʿIzz Ismāʿīl b. al-Razzāz al-Jazarī (b. c.530/1136, d. 602/1206) was an outstanding scholar, engineer, and inventor. The only information about his life is found in the introduction to his richly illustrated manuscript containing a collection of fifty mechanical devices and inventions, with their detailed construction plans. His family originated in al-Jazīra (Upper Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and the Euphrates). Badīʿ al-Zamān (prodigy of the age) was an honorary title used also for various important men, as was the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei590.pdf