Al-Jahiz | Scientist of the Week

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[@KhalidKhan-ki9bi]

Excellent channel, information.

[@Tahir-_Iqbal]

Excellent
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[@hannoscholtz6207]

Can you tell more about Al-Jahiz' technological writings? I have been told he in his Kitab al-Hayawan in the mid-9th century (do you have a more precise estimation when he wrote it?) was the first writer to describe water-powered bellows in the Arab world, a technology that had been invented in Han China almost a millennium ago but which needed one more century to arrive in Europe and provoke there the so-called Feudal revolution that created the European High Middle Ages.

[@tarjamalism]

beautiful, both i mean

[@user-qs5cd4gi3v]

Ibn Al Jahiz *"Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī"* (his real name) was a dark skin aboriginal arab. *He was an autodidactic polymath.*
The fair skin muslim scholars benefited from the Abbassid court wages for their services and they used to live in confort. Even though Abu Uthman's (Ibn Al-Jahiz) services have been used by the court princes, he was shamefully discriminated - One of the account (that stayed in my mind since I read) from other scholars at his time who pity him about the racism treatment was : *"He was so dark and having an eye deformity that he used to teach the abbassid court kids BEHIND A CURTAIN."* But 11 centuries later still his works are taught in arab countries that discriminate their own people with dark skin.

[@abdulrahmanraheem423]

And why are his books being taught and studied?

[@user-qs5cd4gi3v]

@abdulrahmanraheem423 The same reason The West still teach in their universities and benefits Muslims scientists invented and innovated knowledge in every field of our lives... The knowledge in *"Book of Animals"* of Abu Uthman is still used until today...
Another *"dark skin complexion inventor and innovator ARAB from Bagdad "Al Ziryab"* inventions: toothpaste, make-ups, glass cup, oud, gastronomy (3 phases meal or royal 7 phases meal)...etc
3 phases meal: Appetizer, main course, dessert.

[@abdulrahmanraheem423]

Is that a drawing of the Great Scholar Al Jahiz.?

[@m.asifhussain1730]

Turkan Atay??

[@able763]

Yeah, yeah, and after 200 years Islamic clerics came to power and that was the end of Islamic science and art for the next 1000 years