Born: 1136; Mesopotamia in terms of ancient geography
Death: 1206;
Nationality: Turkish
Art Form: Painting , Sculpture
Style: Islamic
Al-Jazari was part of a tradition of artisans and was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled by trial and error rather than by theoretical calculation".
