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Ibn al-Haytham. Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham ( Latinized as Alhazen; / ælˈhæzən /; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 – c. 1040) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
Ibn al-Haytham’s greatest work, “Optics,” appears to have been neglected in the East until the commentary on it by the mathematician Kamāl al-Dīn Abuʾl Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Fārisī (d. 1320). A Latin translation of it—sometimes literal and sometimes interpretative—was made by an unknown scholar, probably early in ...
- Richard Lorch
However, Ibn al-Haytham was still not left to his work as his life took a turn again–sometime in 1010, Al-Hakim Bi-amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt, sent for him to discuss Ibn al-Haytham’s plans (that he had perhaps had as a civil engineering high official at Basra) for building a dam on the Nile River. Ibn al ...
The stories related to his life are often contradictory, depending on the historian relating them. Most of the data on the biography of Ibn al-Haytham came from the writings of the thirteenth century Muslim historian Ibn al-Qifti (1172–1248). Initially, Ibn al-Haytham was trained for a civil service job and was appointed as a judge for Basra.
- Abdelghani Tbakhi, Samir S. Amr
- 10.5144/0256-4947.2007.464
- 2007
- Ann Saudi Med. 2007 Nov-Dec; 27(6): 464-467.
May 18, 2024 · Their research focuses on the legacy of al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham known in Latin as “Alhazen” and particularly his most influential work titled Book of Optics, reputed in Arabic as Kitab al-Manazir and first circulated in Europe via its Latin translation dubbed ‘Perspectiva’. Ibn al-Haytham was born in the southern Iraqi city of Basra ...
The only significant work in Arabic that built on Ibn al-Haytham’s ideas was produced in the early part of the fourteenth century (in present day Iran) by Kamal al-Din al-Farisi, who was himself a brilliant scientific thinker. When Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics was translated into Latin, it had great influence and was widely studied/read ...
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The only significant work in Arabic that built on Ibn al-Haytham’s ideas was produced in the early part of the fourteenth century (in present day Iran) by Kamal al-Din al-Farisi, who was himself a brilliant scientific thinker. When Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics was translated into Latin it had great influence and was widely studied/read.
