Al-Jami’ Bain Al-‘Ilm wal-Amal Al-Nafi’ fi Sina’at Al-Hiyal “A Compendium on the Theory and Practice of the Mechanical Arts”

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23 pp. of English text + 571 pp. of Arabic text + 16 pp. of plates, title in Arabic and English; Edited by Ahmad Al-Hassan with collaboration of Imad Ghanem, Malik Malluhi and Mostafa Ta'muri; publisher's original wrappers; biblio, figures, glossary, index; cover soiled otherwise copy clean and in good condition. Abū al-'Izz Ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazari (1136-1206) was an important Muslim scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia who flourished during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). He is best known for writing the Kitáb fí Ma'rifat al-Hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.