# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-y-al-hassan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:05:38.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-y-al-hassan"
name: "Ahmad Y. al-Hassan"
slug: "ahmad-y-al-hassan"
description: "Ahmad Yousef Al-Hassan was a Palestinian/Syrian/Canadian historian of Arabic and Islamic science and technology, educated in Jerusalem, Cairo, and London with a PhD in mechanical engineering from University College London. He was Dean of Engineering and later President of the University of Aleppo where he founded the Institute for the History of Arabic Science (IHAS) and was its first director.\nHe also served as Minister of Petroleum, Electricity and Mineral Resources of Syria prior to 1971.\nHe migrated to Canada in 1982."
tagline: "Palestinian-Syrian-Canadian historian of science and technology"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-06-25"
deathDate: "2012-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.38
  momentum:             1.538461538461538
  historical:           6.139669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yusuf_al-Hasan"
    title: "Ahmad Yusuf al-Hasan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "أحمد يوسف الحسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "احمد يوسف الحسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Y._al-Hassan"
    title: "Ahmad Y. al-Hassan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Y._Hassan"
    title: "Ahmad Y. Hassan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Y._al-Hassan"
    title: "Ahmad Y. al-Hassan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Y._al-Hassan"
    title: "Ahmad Y. al-Hassan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4695499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump