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name: "Ismail al-Jazari"
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description: "A 12th-century engineer who catalogued fifty mechanical devices — including water-powered automatons and the elephant clock — in a manuscript that later earned him the label \"father of robotics.\""
tagline: "Mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ismail al-Jazari was a polymath and mechanical engineer working under the Artuqid Dynasty in Jazira, Mesopotamia. In 1206 he completed The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, a technical manual describing fifty inventions with full construction instructions. Among them was the elephant clock, a water-driven timekeeping automaton that became one of his signature works. The manuscript preserved engineering knowledge that would ripple forward through centuries, eventually casting al-Jazari as an ancestor of modern robotics and mechanical design.