Contribution of eminent Muslims, who developed a number of useful engineering devices and laid down the basis of Engineering, since the medival times.
Full Name: Abu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari. Other Names: Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir. Arabic: ابن الشاطر Born: 1304AD. Died: 1375 AD. Origin: Damascus, Syria. Famous for: Astronomer, Mathematician, and Engineer. Contributions: Constructed a sundial for minaret of Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 1371/72. Ibn al-Shatir also…
Full Name: Abū al‐Qāsim, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir. Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن موسى بن شاكر Other Names: Banū Mūsá, Ahmad ibn Mūsá, Abū al‐Qāsim Origin: Baghdad, Iraq. Born/Death: 9th Century Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer. Contribution: Kitab al-Hiyal al-Naficah (“The Book of Ingenious Devices”). Kitāb Maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah (“Book on the…
Full Name: Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir. Arabic: أبو جعفر محمّد بن موسى بن شاكر Other Names: Jaʿfar Muḥammad, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, Banū Mūsá, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Origin: Baghdad, Iraq. Born:: 750 AD. Death: 872 AD. Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer. Contribution: Kitab al-Hiyal al-Naficah (“The Book of Ingenious Devices”). Kitāb Maʿrifah masāḥat…
Ismail al Jazari is called the father of robots. Full Name: Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī. Arabic: بديع الزمان أبو العز بن إسماعيل بن الرزاز الجزيري Other Names: Hali, Haly, or Haly Abenrudian. Born: 1136 CE. Died: c. 1206. Origin: Jazira, Artuqid Dynasty. Famous for: Scholar, Inventor, Mechanical Engineer, Artisan and Artist .…
Full Name: Anousheh Ansari Arabic: انوشه انصاری Other Names: née Raissyan Origin: Iranian American engineer. Born: Sep 12, 1966 Famous for:The first Iranian in space. She was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Contribution: Co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Co-founder and CEO…
Sind ibn Ali was a ninth-century astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer. Full Name: Abu al-Tayyib Sanad ibn Ali. Arabic: أبو الطيب سند بن علي Origin: Sanad ibn Ali was either an Iraqi Jewish or Sindhi from Mansura, capital of Arab Sindh. Dies: 864 AD Famous for: Astronomy and Mathemmatics Contribution: Translated and modified the Zij…
Abbas Ibn Firnas was born in 809-810 AD in Ronda, Andalusia, Spain. Full Name: Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas al-Takurini Arabic: أبو القاسم عباس بن فرناس بن ورداس التاكرني Died: 887 A.D. Famous for: An inventor, astronomer, physician, chemist, engineer, Andalusi musician, and Arabic-language poet. Contributions: He was reported to have experimented with…
