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I think Al Jazari inventing the camshaft is frivolous. Heron of Alexandria, nearly a thousand years before, already had water automata of the kind. Read the Stamp mill wiki entry, you will see that apparently water mills through the Roman and Early Middle Ages used cams to convert the rotary movement into a vertical one (to stamp all kinds of material). Please remove the camshaft "invention" attribution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.143.217.66 ( talk) 09:13, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Response: Trip Hammers are still rotational motion, not linear. See the trip hammer page video, they are rotational. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.25.104 ( talk) 01:57, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Please modify the article. He was definitly Turk and not Arab. Only his name is Arabic and nothing else. That time all the region was Turk and Tukmen. He is from Turkey and it is logic that we name him Turk and not Arab. Freedomist ( talk) 20:45, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Are you stupid? He was an Arab from the Arab tribe of [[Banu Shayban]-- 2003:43:4F4C:2446:A4D3:117D:5005:3804 ( talk) 14:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.
Paul Vallely, "How Islamic inventors changed the world" 11 March 2006 [1] -- Ben Houston 15:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Why does religious affliction seem to be important here when it is seldom, or never mentioned with scientists/inventors from other cultures?
He was an Arab look here: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
He was Kurdish not Turk nor Arab. That region ever never been under control of Turks or Turkish culture until Turkish Republic early 1920. Ardilkirmizisac ( talk) 08:37, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
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Al-Jazari came from Northern Mesopotamia, does that really make him Arab or possibly Syriac? Because Syriacs at the time were the majority group living in Mespotamia. At the time, most of the Christian Syriacs turned Muslim to avoid paying the taxes, so he possibly could be Syriac. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 16:28, 22 May 2010 (UTC) user:Assyrio
I also would like to state that I don't believe he was Arab at all. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 04:34, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
He was from a Kurdish city. He was from Cizre, which lies (pretty much) on the border between Syria, Iraq and Turkey. This city has a very small Arabic population, and no Syriacs at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_ibn_al-Athir he was born in the same period as him, at the same city; he was also a Kurd. — Preceding
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incorrect, there is no evidence that supports him being Kurdish, Syriacs and Arabs were a large majority in that region, he is more likely to be Arab or Syriac. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 06:34, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hvakshahtrah, that is the most ignorant argument I've read, just because the city is Kurdish today doesn't mean it wasn't Arab back then... also, Why does it say in the article of Cizre that the city was called Jazira Ibn 'Umar Al-Jazari is Arab, simple as that, he's not Kurdish, The sources that call him Kurdish aren't credible. The 3rd source calls him an Arab inventor, he is 90% more likely Arab than Kurd. I have never heard of Kurds in the Islamic Golden Age. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 15:55, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
He was an Arab from Banu Shayban [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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The device described in the article is best described an automaton. It is completely misleading to call it a robot. See the definitions at the two linked articles for explanations of what constitutes each type of machine. Lumos3 23:06, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I have again corrected the claim that what Al-Jazari built can be called a robot. An automaton is the correct term here. Lumos3 20:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
There's a massive overuse of the word robot all through thae article, a chirping model bird on a clock is called a robot, should I buy a cuckoo clock and tell people I have a robot that tells me the time? The 'humanoid robots' were more like giant music boxes in the shape of people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.125.13 ( talk) 00:12, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
There is also a misquotation: Fowler in his 1967 article says "from the waterclock automata of al-Jazari, with its drums, trumpets and clashing cymbals to the three piece life-sized robot band that performs more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection". (p. 45) The robot band he speaks about is not al-Jazari's. Teleshopper ( talk) 14:20, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I realize that many details are missing from that long ago. Still, biographers were able to pin each invention down very precisely. Why no mention of any help? A laboratory-like facility had to be used to come up with this many inventions in his spare time, as it were. He must have had many assistants, yet none are mentioned either by name or number. This creates a slight credibility problem for me.
Also, he produced three important inventions at age 66, the year that he died. No other dates for his inventions are mentioned.
Student7 02:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I ripped out [2] the D+C subsection as a copyvio of [3] (the other ref used in it was also a copyvio of that (or the other way round) but thats another matter.
I also think several of the claims are implausible - first use of templates or paper models - but that too is another matter William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I ripped this out too [4]. I don't know where it was copied from, but I can't see why anyone would have added "Other sundry mechanisms" unless they had copied it. Most of this misc list has been mentionned above, anyway William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
J restored [5] the primacy of Al-J using hydropower to power a saqiya pump, although the primacy of the chinese in general is admitted. I'm not really sure quite what a saqiya pump is, or what makes it so distinct from the chinese pumps. Google hit #1 [6] says its an animal powered pump, but that cant be right William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:52, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
That information is reliably sourced is not a killer argument for inclusion. There are lots more quotes that could be pulled out of DRH amongst others. The point is to choose appropriately. For example, the quote "It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of Al-Jazari's work in the history of engineering" appears quite over-the-top. This is but one mans opinion. A rather fairer conclusion is that any conclusions must be tentative because so little research has been undertaken on Arab technology William M. Connolley ( talk) 17:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
This [8] is a symptom of the article having too many teeny tiny subsections. It needs to be re-written William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I've improved this somewhat by removing some of the sub-section headers, which weren't really needed William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
This section is backed up by [9], but although it sez "The Origin of the Suction Pump" its actually *about* " LAZAWARD (LAJVARD ) AND ZAFFER COBALT OXIDE IN ISLAMIC AND WESTERN LUSTRE GLASS AND CERAMICS". This needs fixing William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Since I don't have access to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography at the moment, could William perhaps quote the part where it says that al-Jazari was an "engineer rather than an inventor"? I'd like to know the full context behind this rather odd assertion which seems to imply he was not an inventor. Thanks, Jagged 85 ( talk) 13:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't think this [10] is justified. But from what I gather her could have been kurdish/turkish if born in the same place today? William M. Connolley ( talk) 18:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Is he an Arab? I doubt it. According to local sources where he live, he was born in the town of the Jezira (modern Cizre in the Turkish Kurdistan). Local people belive that he is a Kurd and member of Botan tribes. Is there any reliable sources to prove this claim? As far as I know, there is not a written source on Al Jazari`s nationality. it is legitimate to ask why any kind of written sources are considered more reliable than the oral sources?. By the way, the town Jezire (Cizre) is a Kurdish town .Murat
Ethnicity is written as Kurdish and source is just a blog!? That blog does not make references. There is no source that mentions his nationality. These "Kurdish" reference should be removed. 81.214.48.202 ( talk) 07:10, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
He was an Arab from Dyar Baker which is originally an Arab city to banu baker bin shayban in the north of Syria (before the occupation of Turkey) And his name was arab and he wrote his books in Arabic [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:24, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Dyarbakir (amed) has never been an arabic city, the original name was not dyarbakir but amed Zageos21 ( talk) 10:27, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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I wanted to ask this on Yahoo answers, but I don't think they'd even know who Al-Jazari is. Anyway, did his 5th water-raising engine (the double-acting reciprocating piston pump) have a connecting rod that had an opposite "bend" to make sure that the pistons didn't act on an angle??? I would think that with an ordinary connecting rod, the cylinders would have to be on an angle since it swings like a pendulum. Heres a video of it.
Did the pistons have a strong enough support base to not act on an angle---without the need for a correlating bend in the con-rod?? Thanks for your time. It would be MUCH appreciated!! InternetHero ( talk) 18:14, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I don't think there were any physical descriptions of the man, nevermind an actual portrait. The one used here is fairly new so I don't think the test of time has anything to do with this. InternetHero ( talk) 14:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Could we recruit an engineer to edit this? Al-Jazari deserves better than this. J8079s ( talk) 22:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
There are actual portrait of an individual if its not the actual portrait which is very important then there is no need to put any portrait with the information since it is not the actual person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.13.161.218 ( talk) 17:35, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
His name is way too long!
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Tabascofernandez ( talk) 00:16, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Claims of "first" are not sustained by the sources. J8079s ( talk) 03:06, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Removed the Sally Ganchy reference because on p. 47 is no mention at all of crankshafts. Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 02:24, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Guys please these are just fake facts abaout ebuliz. He was from Ciziri in Kurdistan (south-eastern turkey) which has always been kurdish. He might have been in in the powerful kurdish botan tribe. but he was not from Iraq or arab and that i can guarante you.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrkurdistan ( talk • contribs) 21:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
If the people from the UK agree to name Isac Newton an Italian or a Roman scientist because his famous book is in Latin, so let Al Jazari and other Kurdish and Persian scientists and scholars be named Arabs.
It's not sure he was Kurdish, plus, he was Culturally and linguistically arabic, like Augustine of Hippo, he was african but he was culturally roman. Don't compaire Newton with this, he was british and his books were in english.
He was An Arab from Dyar Baker which was a city of Banu Baker bin Shayban in that time before Turkey and those kurd came and occupied the city and the whole region
These sources approved he is Arab [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:31, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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For background information, please see RFC/U and Cleanup. With 360 edits, User:Jagged 85 is the main contributor to this article by far (2nd with 55 edits is William M. Connolley who did clean-up work). The issues are a repeat of what had been exemplarily shown here, here, here or here. As the last pre-Jagged85 version (from 18 November 2006) is unreferenced and contains at least one false claim (namely that he invented the crankshaft, which however dates back as far as the Romans), I stubbed the article completely. Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 23:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
He worked in service of the Artuqid dynasty, an Oghuz Turk Dynasty in Diyarbakır and it is natural that we name he Turk. Al-Jazira and all Mesopotamia in that time and before that time i.e. at least in the beginning of abbasid caliphate was under control of Turks/Turkmens. There was no arab or others such as persians and kurds in the area at that time and region inhabitantes were Assyrians, Armenians and Turks of them only Turks were Muslim. Thus we can say that Al jazari was definitly from Turkic ancestory. Freedomist ( talk) 10:34, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey, he was from Dyar Baker which you can know its people by its name.. and we all know how Turkey take that northen cities of Syria .. And he was an Arab , you can look at these sources [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:27, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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there are some links where it's said al-jazari was persian:
http://www.intellia.co.nz/game%20design.html
I think that only a few informations are still availlable on that guy, so anyone can say anything about him. My opinion is that he is probably a persian scholar. I don't agree with you when you say there were no persians in that area, this place was under persian domination for many centuries before arabs and turks came there ! please if you have strong sources, quote them, but your opinion is only your opinion and doesn't make it true.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.233.218.32 ( talk) 18:46, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
He was an Arab and these are the sources [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:38, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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Some claim he was a Turk or a Persian, but got no one who supports you, seeing as there was nothing Turkish/Persian with him. He was from a Kurdish city, and had an Arabic name. Simple as that.
He was not an Arab either, seeing as he was from a Kurdish city. For the people who claim that Cizre was Arabic, please take a look at this man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_ibn_al-Athir. He was from the same time period, and he was a Kurd. There is nothing that suggests he was an Arab. And if you're going by name, then why not claim all the Persian scientists as Arabs? Exactly, that'd be quite silly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.78.28 ( talk) 10:07, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Born in kurdish city doesn't mean he was kurdish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.41.10.60 ( talk) 23:52, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
It certainly seems that way to me. For this reason I flagged this article as violating NPOV. Please don't remove the POV-tag until the issue of Al-Jazari's nationality is resolved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.170.102.124 ( talk) 15:36, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Al-jarzi was in Artuqid dynasty, a Turkic Dynasty in Anatolia and it is ligic that he was Turk. All north Mesopotamia and east anotolia in that time under control of Turkic pepole and tribes. He was not arab and he was Turk. Al farabi had a arabic name but he was Turk. Some people think that if the name is Arabic so he is an Arab. no. He was Muslim and he chose an arabic name. Freedomist ( talk) 20:41, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Cobanas 1st edit(ever) was the removal of Persian ethnicity and its references, using the edit summary, "the reference about the persian ethnicity of al jazari is not credible , the book which you refered to is not about this muslim engineer". This is not true.
Per the source for Persian ethnicity states, "Kitah fi Maarafat al-Hiyal al Handasiya; Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Geometrical Devices", which IS Al-Jazari.
Also, this does not explain why the Arab ethnicity was removed as well from the infobox! The continued removal of referenced information by Cobanas which was done originally by 5.234.4.33, leads me to believe these people are one and the same. --
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He was a Artuk Turkish citizen. At least this could be mentioned. Also, there are sources for his Turkish ancestry. Stanford, Warsaw But a non national statement would also be ok. Because of non- national life style of the time. -- Kafkasmurat ( talk) 21:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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Yazdani's book is about India from 17th to 19th century and makes a passing mention of Jazari's ethnicity, while
Yazdani's specialization appears to be Mughal/post-Mughal India. Would this make Yazdani a reliable source for al-Jazari(1136–1206)?
Would like the opinions of:
Those aren't the only 2 sources stating his Kurdish ethnicity; there are plenty more. It's rare to see him being called an Arab or sometimes even Turk; all those claims come from Arab and Turkish nationalists. Just look at the edit history of Wikipedia's "Saladin" page, another Kurd who has been claimed hundreds of times by Arabs and Turks. Not only was Al Jazari a Kurd, but him being anything else wouldn't make much sense in that region's time and context; he was born in Cizre (Jazira), which is and has always been a city in the "heart of Kurdistan". The city was capital of many Kurdish principalities. Furthermore, Jazari was born at a time when Kurdish dynasties thrives; his peak was during the Kurdish Ayyubid's (Saladin) peak, and he was a citizen of that Kurdish empire.
His ethnicity is maybe not written in stone, but there ARE sources. And that should be enough for a person that lived almost a thousand years ago.
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 09:36, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Cizre ("Jazira") has produced a long line of famous Kurds from Islamic Golden Age. All of the following famous individuals from the Islamic Golden Age were all born in the same city, carried a similar family name, and all served under Ayyubid Empire or one of its vassals. One of them was Saladin's personal historian/biographer:
Saladin's historian: /info/en/?search=Ali_ibn_al-Athir
Born in the same city. Known by the same family name: "Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari" ***AL JAZARI***
The other brothers from the same family:
Majd ad-Dīn - publisher of several dictionaries, including one on family names.
Diyā' ad-Dīn - famous author who penned several important books on culture and literature. A selection of his letters published by David Samuel Margoliouth are available under the title On the Royal Correspondence of Diyā' ad-Dīn al-Jazarī. ---> ***AL JAZARI***
So, we have:
- Several sources in which this Al-Jazari is called a Kurd, including older sources from eras where ethnicity wasn't a big aspect of Middle-Eastern life. - He is born in a Kurdish city; it was a Kurdish city back then and it is still a Kurdish city. - He was born in a prominent family in a Kurdish city during the peak of Kurdish power/might during the Middle-Ages. He was a citizen of Saladin's Kurdish Ayyubid empire and served for one of its vassal states. - He carries the same family name as other famous Kurds from the same city with the same family; their ethnic background is not disputed whatsoever, maybe because this "Al-Jazari" is one of the most important scientists from Islamic Golden Age, so non-Kurds try harder to "claim him".
All of this is a COINCIDENCE? What a HUGE coincidence then! Funny how these HUGE coincidences happen to Kurdish history all the time!
How many "Al Jazari" families were there during Islamic Golden Age? I know only of one: the Kurdish family from Cizre / Jazira!
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 10:43, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
The HUGE COINCIDENCE thickens. Here's an article from an Islamic website (so VERY neutral about ethnicity, this is not sarcasm by the way), about "IMAAM IBN AL-JAZARI", a prominent historic scholar from the same city. This is what is written about him:
The Imaam describes himself in his famous nadhm (poem) in ‘Ilm at-Tajweed (Science of Tajweed), al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah (al-Muqaddimah feemaa yajibu ‘alaa qaari’ al-Qur’aan an-ya’lamah) as ‘Imaam al-Jazari’. ‘Jazari’ is a location in the Kurdistan/Turkmenistan/Iraq region. He belongs to a place called Ibn -‘Umar and the ‘ulamaa say that he has Kurdiy asl (Kurdish origins).
Source: http://idealmuslimah.com/personalities/mencholars/515-imaam-ibn-al-jazari.html
So a historic figure from the same city and period with the same family name literally wrote about his Kurdish origins.
But this Al-Jazari, from the same city, period, and family name, no, this one is DEFINITELY from a completely different family. Probably an Arab or Turk. Makes more sense than him having been a Kurd. /s
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 10:51, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Nope, not a good idea at all. There are no reliable indicators for him having been anything else than Kurdish. Persian is ultimately ridiculous. Seems like you are on some kind of anti-Kurd crusades, I have seen you post in talk sections of other "controversial" articles before regarding the ethnicity of some Kurdish individuals.
His ethnicity should stay in the introduction. No point in adding "maybe he was Arab or Persian". I have provided plenty of evidence about the Al-Jazari family name; literally all Al-Jazari's who were born in Cizre (Jazira) were Kurds and are recorded as such in plenty of reliable historic and contemporary sources.
He was a Kurd. Period. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.82.163.173 ( talk) 15:26, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Furthermore, nice pathetic attempt at trolling. You wrote this:
That book was written by the 3 Persian brothers known as Banu Musa: /info/en/?search=Book_of_Ingenious_Devices
The book authored by the Kurdish polymath Al-Jazari is titled: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
As you can see, the titles look alike, but are NOT the same.
You shouldn't really be discussing in this section. It seems like you cant even differentiate between 2 books that were written centuries apart. The very basics of history of the region, and both books are extremely famous. You are not informed enough about this subject to contribute.
The "Persian" ethnicity can therefore be completely disregarded, and should not even be hinted at.
Weak trolling attempt. Try harder next time.
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 15:33, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Looks like pathetic nationalists insist on calling him an Arab or Persian somehow, even though he was from a Kurdish family, lived in a Kurdish region, born in a Kurdish city, and lived during the height of Kurdish medieval power (Ayyubids).
Changed the body of the text accordingly.
"Persian" will be consistently removed if it is added. Persians have no medieval history and belonging in that region, whatsoever. Especially Cizre.
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 09:00, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
This article just assumes that he was a muslim; no sources are provided to back this up. It is POSSIBLE that he was a Kurdish Yazidi from Cizre. As we already established the Kurdishness of this individual and the city and family he was from, now remains establishing his religion.
Cizre, a city in the heart of Kurdish areas of the Middle-East, has always been a stronghold of Kurdish patriots. As such, Kurdish Yazidism thrived here for centuries. In fact, Cizre was the capital of the Botan Principality, a Kurdish principality of the Middle Ages. This Principality, centered in Cizre, adopted Yazidism as their national religion!
Furthermore, Al-Jazari featured the Peacock in many of his designs, such as the Peacock Pitcher and the Peacock Fountain. The peacock is a holy creature in the Kurdish religion of Yazidism, known as "Melek Taus".
The peacock is not native to the Middle-East, so non-Kurdish populations wouldn't be all too familiar with this birds, unless they are Kurds and cultured about the Yazidi faith, or Yazidi Kurds themselves. Even today, most of the Middle-East either is unfamiliar with this bird (even though we live in an era of mass media!) or they associate it with Yazidi's, which is unfortunately seen as a negative thing these days.
Source for Cizre's (Jazari) Yazidi faith adoption:
Nelida Fuccaro, The other Kurds: Yazidis in colonial Iraq, 256 pp., Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.241.203.168 ( talk) 07:30, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
his name is "Abū l-ʿIzz", his father(s?) is "Ismāʿīl (ibn?) ar-Razāz, (Ismāʿīl the rice-shopper), and "al-Jazarī" is his placename (of Jazira? (caliphate province; so kurdish). and "Badīʿ az-Zaman" is his supertitle, common format of these names (that are unique, no ambiguation) is using supertitle (if exists. if not, we "have to" use [Abu-phrase]) and placename, so his name should be "Badīʿ az-Zaman al-Jazarī". compare : Abu-Raihan al-Berouni (of Beroun city, of Khwarezm), Abu-l-wafa Bouzjani (of Bouzjan), Abu-l-Alaa al-Ma'arri, etc. using supertitle (if exists) preferred than Abu-phrase. because supertitle is given to famous people [by kings, caliphs, emirs, even people {of their time}) for avoiding to say their names (for respect; if you don't use it means disrespect, because "it's built/given to say"). it's like english "Sir" but more variable and professionalized: Badīʿ az-Zaman: the Genius of all times (wasn't he?). finally, in addition: if you don't, it means you ignore all his works and career, because he wasn't born in this name; he worked so hard to get this supertitle Tabascofernandez ( talk) 00:10, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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Just because user:Nabataeus can find more sources for their POV, does not indicate most sources state al-Jazari's ethnicity as Arab. We have multiple reliable sources stating different ethnicities and we should present them neutrally. Not like:
I completely agree with Kansas Bear, Nabataeus is a POV pusher. Farawahar ( talk) 00:47, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Kansas Bear: See the current version [17]. Abstained from adding the former statement and I deleted unreliable materials from the Arab and Persian sources. Yes, Carl W. Hall is similar to Burghardt, they might be both removed and replaced by other decent sources if existed. before further edits could you single out the unreliable materials in the current version? Ceccarelli is the Chairman of the Permanent Commission for the history of Machine and Mechanism of Science. Who is held as an engineer historian, others need further investigations.
I just noticed, you reverted my edit! I didn't add any statement but merely deleted seriously questionable materials from both the Arab and Persian claims. I am genuinely willing to cooperate, but if you simply delete every reference I make without singling out questionable sources from the article, I am afraid I will make sure to inform an Administrator. You didn't need to delete all the sources I added, did you? Just delete the DK publishings.
Nabataeus ( talk) 19:40, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Sources for his ethnicity are rare and contradictory, the article contains some of the best ones i found on the web. I suggest not to modify the article. Again Nabataeus, Kansas Bear is absolutely right, you should take your concerns to the talk page and avoid an edit war.
Farawahar ( talk) 20:13, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
The views of his origin are fairly represented. I abstained from adding any remarks. Merely added sources and deleted seriously questionable materials (No POV or whatsoever).
From the Persian claim, I deleted the followings:
A web page of museum that lack any results? Really!
Unreliable.
From the Arab claim:
You could add reliable sources if you like with limitless quantity as long as they are credible. You could also remove the DK publishings (I doubt their reliability). But I strongly advise not to remove all the sources for the sole purpose of certain unreliable references.
PS: @Kansas Bear, perceiving my edit as unnecessary qualify as POV.
Nabataeus ( talk) 20:39, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
If i understand well, you accept the fact that we should keep a NPOV and avoid sentences like “most sources list him as Arab...” ? If so, then we “have a deal”.
Farawahar ( talk) 21:07, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Yes. I didn't include it in my recent edit. But apparently Kansas (although we had a conversation to solve the issue) thought further sources are unnecessary. I will restore it to the former version. You could add credible materials for the Persian claim, not a blog or science museum page. And when you do, you could delete the Timelines of Science (DK publishing) from the sources of the Arab claim if you doubt its reliability. I deleted Science: The Definitive Visual Guide (Also DK publishing). Best regards Nabataeus ( talk) 21:23, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I checked the sources and Kansas Bear is right (again), some sources are cited twice and others have nothing to do with this topic, this is the first reason i’ll revert your edit (Kansas Bear can not do so without breaking the three-revert rule).
Second reason, YOU broke that rule without a consensus.
Third reason : have a look at this.
Farawahar ( talk) 22:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Kansas Bear: I had a long conversation with you, and your main concern was my remark. You emphasized that the quantity of sources doesn't mirror that "Most sources describe him as Arab". I re-checked my assertion merit, and maybe rightly so you thought. You further criticised some sources I provided. So I deleted questionable materials mainly Robot Scientist, Kevin Cunningham, Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel. And urged you to single out sources that you find unreliable. Restoring reliable references and asking you gently to remove what you find unreliable doesn't qualify as POV, far from it. But since you have arbitrary definition of what qualify as POV, this sure to be expected. Removing reliable references from certain parts is considered WP:DE.
You could remove Timelines of Science (without deleting all sources), however you need to explicitly provide reasonable explanation to why you find those sources unreliable? The way I see it, the sources are of equal reliability as the ones from the Persian/Kurdish claim. Or the food scientist guy Carl W. Hall a reliable source for the Persian claim?
It's not listed as separate source, it was mixed wrongly with source number 8. (Engineering and Technology) that's probably why I didn't notice.
Nabataeus ( talk) 14:22, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
See my post above for the source (Not sources!). Second I didn't break the WP:3RR rule. It's within 24-hours period. Do the math. And how you reached the conclusion that my sources have nothing to do with the topic? Really! The sources provided for the Persian ethnicity is a food scientist guy, not a historian.
I had no idea adding reliable sources need consensus! However I am fairly familiar that removing references qualify as WP:DE
Nabataeus ( talk) 14:35, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
So, according to user:Nabataeus, Al-Khalili (a British theoretical physicist) is a reliable source for a topic about a medieval islamic guy ? Is really Ronan Needham, a specialist of Chinese civilization, reliable for this topic ??
The truth, user:Nabataeus, is that you do not have so much true reliable sources dealing with the ethnicity of that man, you know that but since you’re here for nationalistic reasons and not to contribute to an encyclopaedia, you try to add unreliable sources to push your POV, like the one you used here : Mubariz al-Din Muhammad (using a specialist of the history of Venezuela, namely Carlos Ramirez-Faria, to support an Arab ethnicity of the founder of medieval Muzaffarid dynasty ! Seriously ?!
Farawahar ( talk) 15:23, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Actually I am not here for nationalistic reasons, most of my edits are architectural/archaeological articles. I didn't say Al-Khalili is cut clear authoritative source for al-Jazari, although he studied Islamic history and authored multiple titles.
You mean Joseph Needham? The book is cooperation between two authors, Colin A. Ronan specialization is the history of science. The book is published by Cambridge, yes relatively reliable, more so than the food scientist guy.
Seriously ?!
First, I didn't delete or vandalize the article. I left the Kurdish and Persian claims, the burden of adding sources are on you. And don't talk to me of nationalistic tendencies when you vandalized Al-Kindi article with unreliable tertiary source. And removed referenced information from Mubariz al-Din article by misinterpreting a source that call the Muzaffarids as Arabo-Persian dynasty as an assertion of the Persian origin of Mubariz al-Din! How you reached that conclusion is absolutely beyond me. Astonishing. It's clear that Arabo-Persian signify two things 1. The dynasty is Arab 2. The cultural environment was Persian. Simple. The same wording is used for the Seljuks and other non-Persian dynasties in Iran.
Second, yes the sources I provided are as reliable as that of the Persian or Kurdish claims. Such as Ceccarelli who is the Chairman of the Permanent Commission for the history of Machine and Mechanism of Science. Opposed to the food scientist Carl W. Hall who authored Drying and Storage of Grains and Oilseeds, and an encyclopedia of food engineering.
As for the unreliable sources I provided, appears to be the following:
Other sources are as reliable or even more than the sources provided for his ethnicity. Removing the references definitely qualify as WP:DE.
Nabataeus ( talk) 16:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
So, if i follow your argument, i’m a vandal because i wanted to add a reliable tertiary source (namely : Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures) for the ethnicity of al-kindi ? This source is used on Wikipedia for other medieval muslim scholars (example : Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī) by far more experienced users than you and me, so learn to be a litte more modest. And other tertiary sources are also widely used (like Britannica...) , if all people using these sources were »vandals », there would not be any honest user on Wikipedia... My mistake at that time was to get engaged in an edit war with you, thinking (probably with reason, when i see your « contributions »), that i was reverting a vandal. But i can tell you that i will not get trapped like that again. Now i added encyclopedia of islam for the ethnicity of Muzaffarids and Mubariz (encyclopedia of islam states « Persian dynasty, their ancestrors came from Arabia » and Mubariz is the founder of the Muzaffarids, therefore he is a Persian with Arab origin), i think it’s by far a more reliable source than Carlos Ramirez-Faria. The Muzaffarids came to Khurassan at the time of muslim conquest of Persia, they became rulers of parts of Iran 7 centuries later, so they were deeply Persianized then... it seems to me that your lack of historical knowledge only equals your lack of honesty...
But let’s talk about you : strongly suspected of sock puppetry, removing referenced Non Arab ethnicities in many articles as soon as you can, bombarding articles with non reliable sources to push your POV, blatantly edit warring etc, etc, etc...
Who, between you and me, is a vandal ???
Anyway, i have nothing else to say to someone like you, so i think we're done here.
Farawahar ( talk) 18:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Tertiary sources are not reliable. Only used when it could be verified by reliable secondary sources. You didn't consider my warning when I asked you to provide credible materials, you further proceeded to disrupt the article, until I asked for the intervention of an Administrator.
That's the epitome of original research, it goes against WP:NOR policy:
Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not clearly stated by the sources themselves.}}
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you gently and nicely to provide a source that assert on the Persian origin of Mubariz al-Din. Otherwise it will certainly be removed. Anyway we are off topic, please don't transfer any dispute to non-related articles, you may rise your concerns to the said talk page.
Do you fully understand and comprehend what sockpuppetry means?
Kansas seems to edit right now, not sure if he lost interest in the conversation. Your main objections (Both) is the "Most sources call him Arab" part. That was removed and will not be added. I will restore the references and delete three questionable sources from the Arab claim.
Nabataeus ( talk) 19:21, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
I haven't noticed, it appears to be done in a wrong citation style. I will separate the sources for now.
As I said, Khalili studied Islamic history and authored multiple titles, A.Ronan is specialist in the history of science, they are as reliable (even more) than Carl W. Hall. If they were removed/unqualified then likewise should the food scientist guy.
What non historical references? The topic of the sources I provided are history related. I don't believe adding sources need a consensus. My statement however did, and I will leave it out.
Most tertiary sources are not credible if it couldn't be verified by a reliable secondary source. His source didn't pass that criteria. An administrator was asked, and he explicitly stated that it's tertiary, if the matter is disputed other sources should be provided. Also Wikipedia's policy is quite clear concerning the matter:
- The distinction between tertiary and secondary sources is important, because WP:No original research policy states: "Articles may make an analytic or evaluative claim only if that has been published by a reliable secondary source."
- Simple facts: A tertiary source is most often used for reference citations for basic and fairly trivial facts that are not likely to be disputed and can be verified in other sources. Examples include various vernacular names for a species, the pronunciation of a foreign word, or a baseball player's statistics in a particular year.
Nabataeus ( talk) 14:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
@ GreenMeansGo:
Thanks for the clarification. The source that was provided, minor being contradictory, was not highly qualified. The reliability of the source was asked in [18], and the respond was the following:
: although it is tertiary and not secondary it should be OK, provided the ethnicity is not a matter of controversy. If it is controversial then I'd recommend additional sources. Guy ( Help!) 23:30, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
The administrator emphasized his caution, as long as the matter is not disputed the source "should" be "OK".
Nabataeus ( talk) 17:16, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Kansas Bear: You misunderstood me, Al-khalili is not an authoritative on the background of al-Jazari. So does Carl W. Hall who specialize mainly in food science. Contrary to W. Hall, Al,Khalili had actually studied Islamic history. Either both are deleted or none. That's my argument. Best regards.
And what's wrong with separating sources? That's how usually references are cited.
Nabataeus ( talk) 17:32, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
This is the typical behavior of a POV pusher who confuses this encyclopedia and his personal blog...
Farawahar ( talk) 20:47, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
I have not read through the walls of text above. I did, however dig up a biography. The most salient point in it is that it does not address his ethnicity at all because there evidently is no information about it in his book which they say is the only existent source of biographical information. The relevant quote is
His name is “Al-Shaykh Rais Al-Amal Badii Al-Zaman Abu Al-Izz Ibn Ismail Ibn Al-Razzaz Al-Jazari”. This long name is actually a combination of his title and his real name. The first three titles “Al-Shaykh Rais Al-Amal” indicate that he was a notorious chief engineer, “Badii Al-Zaman” the best of all times, “Abu El-Izz” the well respected, “Ibn Ismail” sun of Ismail (his father), “Ibn Al-Razzaz” his grandfather, and “Al-Jazari” indicates that his family came from Al-Jazira, which is the region in northern Syria and Iraq between the two rivers Tigre and Euphrates (Fig. 1).
He lived most of his life away from his homeland in Diyar Bikr in Upper Mesopotamia, which is in present-day southern Turkey. He was in the service of three consecutive Artuqid rulers: Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn Arslan (1174–1185), Qutb al-Din Sukman ibn Muhammad (1185–1200) and Nasir al-Din Mahmud ibn Muhammad (1200–1222). The only known information about his life is that given in his book.
• Marco Ceccarelli, ed. (2010). Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science - Part 2. Springer. pp. 1–21. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-2346-9. ISBN 978-90-481-2345-2.
From that I would suggest that there simply be no discussion of his ethnicity. While there may be sources that make educated guesses or flat out assumptions that is all they are and unless they specifically address their claim and back it up ie they specifically sought to identify his ethnicity through academic investigation, they are not reliable for claims of ethnicity. Jbh Talk 18:31, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
He was an Arab live and these is the sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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Many users are trying to include an ethnicity for this scholar. It seems that this kind of disruption has increased significantly since the references about his ethnic background have been removed from the article and listed here. I would like to have other users' opinion as to bring back the references in the main space of the article in order to lower the disruption (even if it appears that references about his ethnicity are only a few and not the best ones for ethnicity claims). Kansas Bear Jbhunley your opinions are more than welcome about this proposal. Cheers.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 22:35, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Would it be possible to construct a few sentences that would acknowledge all the apparent disputed "claims" that al-Jazari was (either) Arab, Turkish, or Kurdish, by citing the key evidence for each claim? This then not only informs the reader that there is some disagreement on this matter, but also allows the reader to make their own decision based on the evidence (or to decide not to make a choice {credit to Neil Peart}). - AppleBsTime ( talk) 14:41, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
Agreed, then the reader can also judge from the quality of the sources. Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم ( talk) 00:40, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
The ethnicity of this scholar is a matter of disruption, since many people (IP/brand new accounts) often show up to add "Kurd" or "Arab" or "XXX". Taking a look at this version of the article, one can see that this scholar has been variously described as Kurd, Arab or Persian, i suggest to add back these ethnicities along with the relevant sources. @ Kansas Bear, HistoryofIran, and C.Fred: Thoughts ?---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 05:42, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
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I think Al Jazari inventing the camshaft is frivolous. Heron of Alexandria, nearly a thousand years before, already had water automata of the kind. Read the Stamp mill wiki entry, you will see that apparently water mills through the Roman and Early Middle Ages used cams to convert the rotary movement into a vertical one (to stamp all kinds of material). Please remove the camshaft "invention" attribution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.143.217.66 ( talk) 09:13, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Response: Trip Hammers are still rotational motion, not linear. See the trip hammer page video, they are rotational. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.25.104 ( talk) 01:57, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Please modify the article. He was definitly Turk and not Arab. Only his name is Arabic and nothing else. That time all the region was Turk and Tukmen. He is from Turkey and it is logic that we name him Turk and not Arab. Freedomist ( talk) 20:45, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Are you stupid? He was an Arab from the Arab tribe of [[Banu Shayban]-- 2003:43:4F4C:2446:A4D3:117D:5005:3804 ( talk) 14:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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Qutoe from recent article:
7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.
Paul Vallely, "How Islamic inventors changed the world" 11 March 2006 [1] -- Ben Houston 15:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Why does religious affliction seem to be important here when it is seldom, or never mentioned with scientists/inventors from other cultures?
He was an Arab look here: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
He was Kurdish not Turk nor Arab. That region ever never been under control of Turks or Turkish culture until Turkish Republic early 1920. Ardilkirmizisac ( talk) 08:37, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
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Al-Jazari came from Northern Mesopotamia, does that really make him Arab or possibly Syriac? Because Syriacs at the time were the majority group living in Mespotamia. At the time, most of the Christian Syriacs turned Muslim to avoid paying the taxes, so he possibly could be Syriac. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 16:28, 22 May 2010 (UTC) user:Assyrio
I also would like to state that I don't believe he was Arab at all. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 04:34, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
He was from a Kurdish city. He was from Cizre, which lies (pretty much) on the border between Syria, Iraq and Turkey. This city has a very small Arabic population, and no Syriacs at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_ibn_al-Athir he was born in the same period as him, at the same city; he was also a Kurd. — Preceding
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incorrect, there is no evidence that supports him being Kurdish, Syriacs and Arabs were a large majority in that region, he is more likely to be Arab or Syriac. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 06:34, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hvakshahtrah, that is the most ignorant argument I've read, just because the city is Kurdish today doesn't mean it wasn't Arab back then... also, Why does it say in the article of Cizre that the city was called Jazira Ibn 'Umar Al-Jazari is Arab, simple as that, he's not Kurdish, The sources that call him Kurdish aren't credible. The 3rd source calls him an Arab inventor, he is 90% more likely Arab than Kurd. I have never heard of Kurds in the Islamic Golden Age. ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ 15:55, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
He was an Arab from Banu Shayban [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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The device described in the article is best described an automaton. It is completely misleading to call it a robot. See the definitions at the two linked articles for explanations of what constitutes each type of machine. Lumos3 23:06, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I have again corrected the claim that what Al-Jazari built can be called a robot. An automaton is the correct term here. Lumos3 20:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
There's a massive overuse of the word robot all through thae article, a chirping model bird on a clock is called a robot, should I buy a cuckoo clock and tell people I have a robot that tells me the time? The 'humanoid robots' were more like giant music boxes in the shape of people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.125.13 ( talk) 00:12, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
There is also a misquotation: Fowler in his 1967 article says "from the waterclock automata of al-Jazari, with its drums, trumpets and clashing cymbals to the three piece life-sized robot band that performs more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection". (p. 45) The robot band he speaks about is not al-Jazari's. Teleshopper ( talk) 14:20, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I realize that many details are missing from that long ago. Still, biographers were able to pin each invention down very precisely. Why no mention of any help? A laboratory-like facility had to be used to come up with this many inventions in his spare time, as it were. He must have had many assistants, yet none are mentioned either by name or number. This creates a slight credibility problem for me.
Also, he produced three important inventions at age 66, the year that he died. No other dates for his inventions are mentioned.
Student7 02:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I ripped out [2] the D+C subsection as a copyvio of [3] (the other ref used in it was also a copyvio of that (or the other way round) but thats another matter.
I also think several of the claims are implausible - first use of templates or paper models - but that too is another matter William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
I ripped this out too [4]. I don't know where it was copied from, but I can't see why anyone would have added "Other sundry mechanisms" unless they had copied it. Most of this misc list has been mentionned above, anyway William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
J restored [5] the primacy of Al-J using hydropower to power a saqiya pump, although the primacy of the chinese in general is admitted. I'm not really sure quite what a saqiya pump is, or what makes it so distinct from the chinese pumps. Google hit #1 [6] says its an animal powered pump, but that cant be right William M. Connolley ( talk) 21:52, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
That information is reliably sourced is not a killer argument for inclusion. There are lots more quotes that could be pulled out of DRH amongst others. The point is to choose appropriately. For example, the quote "It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of Al-Jazari's work in the history of engineering" appears quite over-the-top. This is but one mans opinion. A rather fairer conclusion is that any conclusions must be tentative because so little research has been undertaken on Arab technology William M. Connolley ( talk) 17:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
This [8] is a symptom of the article having too many teeny tiny subsections. It needs to be re-written William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I've improved this somewhat by removing some of the sub-section headers, which weren't really needed William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
This section is backed up by [9], but although it sez "The Origin of the Suction Pump" its actually *about* " LAZAWARD (LAJVARD ) AND ZAFFER COBALT OXIDE IN ISLAMIC AND WESTERN LUSTRE GLASS AND CERAMICS". This needs fixing William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Since I don't have access to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography at the moment, could William perhaps quote the part where it says that al-Jazari was an "engineer rather than an inventor"? I'd like to know the full context behind this rather odd assertion which seems to imply he was not an inventor. Thanks, Jagged 85 ( talk) 13:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't think this [10] is justified. But from what I gather her could have been kurdish/turkish if born in the same place today? William M. Connolley ( talk) 18:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Is he an Arab? I doubt it. According to local sources where he live, he was born in the town of the Jezira (modern Cizre in the Turkish Kurdistan). Local people belive that he is a Kurd and member of Botan tribes. Is there any reliable sources to prove this claim? As far as I know, there is not a written source on Al Jazari`s nationality. it is legitimate to ask why any kind of written sources are considered more reliable than the oral sources?. By the way, the town Jezire (Cizre) is a Kurdish town .Murat
Ethnicity is written as Kurdish and source is just a blog!? That blog does not make references. There is no source that mentions his nationality. These "Kurdish" reference should be removed. 81.214.48.202 ( talk) 07:10, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
He was an Arab from Dyar Baker which is originally an Arab city to banu baker bin shayban in the north of Syria (before the occupation of Turkey) And his name was arab and he wrote his books in Arabic [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:24, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Dyarbakir (amed) has never been an arabic city, the original name was not dyarbakir but amed Zageos21 ( talk) 10:27, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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I wanted to ask this on Yahoo answers, but I don't think they'd even know who Al-Jazari is. Anyway, did his 5th water-raising engine (the double-acting reciprocating piston pump) have a connecting rod that had an opposite "bend" to make sure that the pistons didn't act on an angle??? I would think that with an ordinary connecting rod, the cylinders would have to be on an angle since it swings like a pendulum. Heres a video of it.
Did the pistons have a strong enough support base to not act on an angle---without the need for a correlating bend in the con-rod?? Thanks for your time. It would be MUCH appreciated!! InternetHero ( talk) 18:14, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I don't think there were any physical descriptions of the man, nevermind an actual portrait. The one used here is fairly new so I don't think the test of time has anything to do with this. InternetHero ( talk) 14:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Could we recruit an engineer to edit this? Al-Jazari deserves better than this. J8079s ( talk) 22:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
There are actual portrait of an individual if its not the actual portrait which is very important then there is no need to put any portrait with the information since it is not the actual person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.13.161.218 ( talk) 17:35, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
His name is way too long!
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Tabascofernandez ( talk) 00:16, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Claims of "first" are not sustained by the sources. J8079s ( talk) 03:06, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Removed the Sally Ganchy reference because on p. 47 is no mention at all of crankshafts. Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 02:24, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Guys please these are just fake facts abaout ebuliz. He was from Ciziri in Kurdistan (south-eastern turkey) which has always been kurdish. He might have been in in the powerful kurdish botan tribe. but he was not from Iraq or arab and that i can guarante you.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrkurdistan ( talk • contribs) 21:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
If the people from the UK agree to name Isac Newton an Italian or a Roman scientist because his famous book is in Latin, so let Al Jazari and other Kurdish and Persian scientists and scholars be named Arabs.
It's not sure he was Kurdish, plus, he was Culturally and linguistically arabic, like Augustine of Hippo, he was african but he was culturally roman. Don't compaire Newton with this, he was british and his books were in english.
He was An Arab from Dyar Baker which was a city of Banu Baker bin Shayban in that time before Turkey and those kurd came and occupied the city and the whole region
These sources approved he is Arab [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:31, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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For background information, please see RFC/U and Cleanup. With 360 edits, User:Jagged 85 is the main contributor to this article by far (2nd with 55 edits is William M. Connolley who did clean-up work). The issues are a repeat of what had been exemplarily shown here, here, here or here. As the last pre-Jagged85 version (from 18 November 2006) is unreferenced and contains at least one false claim (namely that he invented the crankshaft, which however dates back as far as the Romans), I stubbed the article completely. Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 23:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
He worked in service of the Artuqid dynasty, an Oghuz Turk Dynasty in Diyarbakır and it is natural that we name he Turk. Al-Jazira and all Mesopotamia in that time and before that time i.e. at least in the beginning of abbasid caliphate was under control of Turks/Turkmens. There was no arab or others such as persians and kurds in the area at that time and region inhabitantes were Assyrians, Armenians and Turks of them only Turks were Muslim. Thus we can say that Al jazari was definitly from Turkic ancestory. Freedomist ( talk) 10:34, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey, he was from Dyar Baker which you can know its people by its name.. and we all know how Turkey take that northen cities of Syria .. And he was an Arab , you can look at these sources [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:27, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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there are some links where it's said al-jazari was persian:
http://www.intellia.co.nz/game%20design.html
I think that only a few informations are still availlable on that guy, so anyone can say anything about him. My opinion is that he is probably a persian scholar. I don't agree with you when you say there were no persians in that area, this place was under persian domination for many centuries before arabs and turks came there ! please if you have strong sources, quote them, but your opinion is only your opinion and doesn't make it true.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.233.218.32 ( talk) 18:46, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
He was an Arab and these are the sources [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:38, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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Some claim he was a Turk or a Persian, but got no one who supports you, seeing as there was nothing Turkish/Persian with him. He was from a Kurdish city, and had an Arabic name. Simple as that.
He was not an Arab either, seeing as he was from a Kurdish city. For the people who claim that Cizre was Arabic, please take a look at this man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_ibn_al-Athir. He was from the same time period, and he was a Kurd. There is nothing that suggests he was an Arab. And if you're going by name, then why not claim all the Persian scientists as Arabs? Exactly, that'd be quite silly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.78.28 ( talk) 10:07, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Born in kurdish city doesn't mean he was kurdish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.41.10.60 ( talk) 23:52, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
It certainly seems that way to me. For this reason I flagged this article as violating NPOV. Please don't remove the POV-tag until the issue of Al-Jazari's nationality is resolved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.170.102.124 ( talk) 15:36, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Al-jarzi was in Artuqid dynasty, a Turkic Dynasty in Anatolia and it is ligic that he was Turk. All north Mesopotamia and east anotolia in that time under control of Turkic pepole and tribes. He was not arab and he was Turk. Al farabi had a arabic name but he was Turk. Some people think that if the name is Arabic so he is an Arab. no. He was Muslim and he chose an arabic name. Freedomist ( talk) 20:41, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Cobanas 1st edit(ever) was the removal of Persian ethnicity and its references, using the edit summary, "the reference about the persian ethnicity of al jazari is not credible , the book which you refered to is not about this muslim engineer". This is not true.
Per the source for Persian ethnicity states, "Kitah fi Maarafat al-Hiyal al Handasiya; Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Geometrical Devices", which IS Al-Jazari.
Also, this does not explain why the Arab ethnicity was removed as well from the infobox! The continued removal of referenced information by Cobanas which was done originally by 5.234.4.33, leads me to believe these people are one and the same. --
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He was a Artuk Turkish citizen. At least this could be mentioned. Also, there are sources for his Turkish ancestry. Stanford, Warsaw But a non national statement would also be ok. Because of non- national life style of the time. -- Kafkasmurat ( talk) 21:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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Yazdani's book is about India from 17th to 19th century and makes a passing mention of Jazari's ethnicity, while
Yazdani's specialization appears to be Mughal/post-Mughal India. Would this make Yazdani a reliable source for al-Jazari(1136–1206)?
Would like the opinions of:
Those aren't the only 2 sources stating his Kurdish ethnicity; there are plenty more. It's rare to see him being called an Arab or sometimes even Turk; all those claims come from Arab and Turkish nationalists. Just look at the edit history of Wikipedia's "Saladin" page, another Kurd who has been claimed hundreds of times by Arabs and Turks. Not only was Al Jazari a Kurd, but him being anything else wouldn't make much sense in that region's time and context; he was born in Cizre (Jazira), which is and has always been a city in the "heart of Kurdistan". The city was capital of many Kurdish principalities. Furthermore, Jazari was born at a time when Kurdish dynasties thrives; his peak was during the Kurdish Ayyubid's (Saladin) peak, and he was a citizen of that Kurdish empire.
His ethnicity is maybe not written in stone, but there ARE sources. And that should be enough for a person that lived almost a thousand years ago.
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 09:36, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
Cizre ("Jazira") has produced a long line of famous Kurds from Islamic Golden Age. All of the following famous individuals from the Islamic Golden Age were all born in the same city, carried a similar family name, and all served under Ayyubid Empire or one of its vassals. One of them was Saladin's personal historian/biographer:
Saladin's historian: /info/en/?search=Ali_ibn_al-Athir
Born in the same city. Known by the same family name: "Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari" ***AL JAZARI***
The other brothers from the same family:
Majd ad-Dīn - publisher of several dictionaries, including one on family names.
Diyā' ad-Dīn - famous author who penned several important books on culture and literature. A selection of his letters published by David Samuel Margoliouth are available under the title On the Royal Correspondence of Diyā' ad-Dīn al-Jazarī. ---> ***AL JAZARI***
So, we have:
- Several sources in which this Al-Jazari is called a Kurd, including older sources from eras where ethnicity wasn't a big aspect of Middle-Eastern life. - He is born in a Kurdish city; it was a Kurdish city back then and it is still a Kurdish city. - He was born in a prominent family in a Kurdish city during the peak of Kurdish power/might during the Middle-Ages. He was a citizen of Saladin's Kurdish Ayyubid empire and served for one of its vassal states. - He carries the same family name as other famous Kurds from the same city with the same family; their ethnic background is not disputed whatsoever, maybe because this "Al-Jazari" is one of the most important scientists from Islamic Golden Age, so non-Kurds try harder to "claim him".
All of this is a COINCIDENCE? What a HUGE coincidence then! Funny how these HUGE coincidences happen to Kurdish history all the time!
How many "Al Jazari" families were there during Islamic Golden Age? I know only of one: the Kurdish family from Cizre / Jazira!
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 10:43, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
The HUGE COINCIDENCE thickens. Here's an article from an Islamic website (so VERY neutral about ethnicity, this is not sarcasm by the way), about "IMAAM IBN AL-JAZARI", a prominent historic scholar from the same city. This is what is written about him:
The Imaam describes himself in his famous nadhm (poem) in ‘Ilm at-Tajweed (Science of Tajweed), al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah (al-Muqaddimah feemaa yajibu ‘alaa qaari’ al-Qur’aan an-ya’lamah) as ‘Imaam al-Jazari’. ‘Jazari’ is a location in the Kurdistan/Turkmenistan/Iraq region. He belongs to a place called Ibn -‘Umar and the ‘ulamaa say that he has Kurdiy asl (Kurdish origins).
Source: http://idealmuslimah.com/personalities/mencholars/515-imaam-ibn-al-jazari.html
So a historic figure from the same city and period with the same family name literally wrote about his Kurdish origins.
But this Al-Jazari, from the same city, period, and family name, no, this one is DEFINITELY from a completely different family. Probably an Arab or Turk. Makes more sense than him having been a Kurd. /s
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 10:51, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Nope, not a good idea at all. There are no reliable indicators for him having been anything else than Kurdish. Persian is ultimately ridiculous. Seems like you are on some kind of anti-Kurd crusades, I have seen you post in talk sections of other "controversial" articles before regarding the ethnicity of some Kurdish individuals.
His ethnicity should stay in the introduction. No point in adding "maybe he was Arab or Persian". I have provided plenty of evidence about the Al-Jazari family name; literally all Al-Jazari's who were born in Cizre (Jazira) were Kurds and are recorded as such in plenty of reliable historic and contemporary sources.
He was a Kurd. Period. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.82.163.173 ( talk) 15:26, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Furthermore, nice pathetic attempt at trolling. You wrote this:
That book was written by the 3 Persian brothers known as Banu Musa: /info/en/?search=Book_of_Ingenious_Devices
The book authored by the Kurdish polymath Al-Jazari is titled: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
As you can see, the titles look alike, but are NOT the same.
You shouldn't really be discussing in this section. It seems like you cant even differentiate between 2 books that were written centuries apart. The very basics of history of the region, and both books are extremely famous. You are not informed enough about this subject to contribute.
The "Persian" ethnicity can therefore be completely disregarded, and should not even be hinted at.
Weak trolling attempt. Try harder next time.
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 15:33, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Looks like pathetic nationalists insist on calling him an Arab or Persian somehow, even though he was from a Kurdish family, lived in a Kurdish region, born in a Kurdish city, and lived during the height of Kurdish medieval power (Ayyubids).
Changed the body of the text accordingly.
"Persian" will be consistently removed if it is added. Persians have no medieval history and belonging in that region, whatsoever. Especially Cizre.
83.82.163.173 ( talk) 09:00, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
This article just assumes that he was a muslim; no sources are provided to back this up. It is POSSIBLE that he was a Kurdish Yazidi from Cizre. As we already established the Kurdishness of this individual and the city and family he was from, now remains establishing his religion.
Cizre, a city in the heart of Kurdish areas of the Middle-East, has always been a stronghold of Kurdish patriots. As such, Kurdish Yazidism thrived here for centuries. In fact, Cizre was the capital of the Botan Principality, a Kurdish principality of the Middle Ages. This Principality, centered in Cizre, adopted Yazidism as their national religion!
Furthermore, Al-Jazari featured the Peacock in many of his designs, such as the Peacock Pitcher and the Peacock Fountain. The peacock is a holy creature in the Kurdish religion of Yazidism, known as "Melek Taus".
The peacock is not native to the Middle-East, so non-Kurdish populations wouldn't be all too familiar with this birds, unless they are Kurds and cultured about the Yazidi faith, or Yazidi Kurds themselves. Even today, most of the Middle-East either is unfamiliar with this bird (even though we live in an era of mass media!) or they associate it with Yazidi's, which is unfortunately seen as a negative thing these days.
Source for Cizre's (Jazari) Yazidi faith adoption:
Nelida Fuccaro, The other Kurds: Yazidis in colonial Iraq, 256 pp., Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.241.203.168 ( talk) 07:30, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
his name is "Abū l-ʿIzz", his father(s?) is "Ismāʿīl (ibn?) ar-Razāz, (Ismāʿīl the rice-shopper), and "al-Jazarī" is his placename (of Jazira? (caliphate province; so kurdish). and "Badīʿ az-Zaman" is his supertitle, common format of these names (that are unique, no ambiguation) is using supertitle (if exists. if not, we "have to" use [Abu-phrase]) and placename, so his name should be "Badīʿ az-Zaman al-Jazarī". compare : Abu-Raihan al-Berouni (of Beroun city, of Khwarezm), Abu-l-wafa Bouzjani (of Bouzjan), Abu-l-Alaa al-Ma'arri, etc. using supertitle (if exists) preferred than Abu-phrase. because supertitle is given to famous people [by kings, caliphs, emirs, even people {of their time}) for avoiding to say their names (for respect; if you don't use it means disrespect, because "it's built/given to say"). it's like english "Sir" but more variable and professionalized: Badīʿ az-Zaman: the Genius of all times (wasn't he?). finally, in addition: if you don't, it means you ignore all his works and career, because he wasn't born in this name; he worked so hard to get this supertitle Tabascofernandez ( talk) 00:10, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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Just because user:Nabataeus can find more sources for their POV, does not indicate most sources state al-Jazari's ethnicity as Arab. We have multiple reliable sources stating different ethnicities and we should present them neutrally. Not like:
I completely agree with Kansas Bear, Nabataeus is a POV pusher. Farawahar ( talk) 00:47, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Kansas Bear: See the current version [17]. Abstained from adding the former statement and I deleted unreliable materials from the Arab and Persian sources. Yes, Carl W. Hall is similar to Burghardt, they might be both removed and replaced by other decent sources if existed. before further edits could you single out the unreliable materials in the current version? Ceccarelli is the Chairman of the Permanent Commission for the history of Machine and Mechanism of Science. Who is held as an engineer historian, others need further investigations.
I just noticed, you reverted my edit! I didn't add any statement but merely deleted seriously questionable materials from both the Arab and Persian claims. I am genuinely willing to cooperate, but if you simply delete every reference I make without singling out questionable sources from the article, I am afraid I will make sure to inform an Administrator. You didn't need to delete all the sources I added, did you? Just delete the DK publishings.
Nabataeus ( talk) 19:40, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Sources for his ethnicity are rare and contradictory, the article contains some of the best ones i found on the web. I suggest not to modify the article. Again Nabataeus, Kansas Bear is absolutely right, you should take your concerns to the talk page and avoid an edit war.
Farawahar ( talk) 20:13, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
The views of his origin are fairly represented. I abstained from adding any remarks. Merely added sources and deleted seriously questionable materials (No POV or whatsoever).
From the Persian claim, I deleted the followings:
A web page of museum that lack any results? Really!
Unreliable.
From the Arab claim:
You could add reliable sources if you like with limitless quantity as long as they are credible. You could also remove the DK publishings (I doubt their reliability). But I strongly advise not to remove all the sources for the sole purpose of certain unreliable references.
PS: @Kansas Bear, perceiving my edit as unnecessary qualify as POV.
Nabataeus ( talk) 20:39, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
If i understand well, you accept the fact that we should keep a NPOV and avoid sentences like “most sources list him as Arab...” ? If so, then we “have a deal”.
Farawahar ( talk) 21:07, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Yes. I didn't include it in my recent edit. But apparently Kansas (although we had a conversation to solve the issue) thought further sources are unnecessary. I will restore it to the former version. You could add credible materials for the Persian claim, not a blog or science museum page. And when you do, you could delete the Timelines of Science (DK publishing) from the sources of the Arab claim if you doubt its reliability. I deleted Science: The Definitive Visual Guide (Also DK publishing). Best regards Nabataeus ( talk) 21:23, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I checked the sources and Kansas Bear is right (again), some sources are cited twice and others have nothing to do with this topic, this is the first reason i’ll revert your edit (Kansas Bear can not do so without breaking the three-revert rule).
Second reason, YOU broke that rule without a consensus.
Third reason : have a look at this.
Farawahar ( talk) 22:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Kansas Bear: I had a long conversation with you, and your main concern was my remark. You emphasized that the quantity of sources doesn't mirror that "Most sources describe him as Arab". I re-checked my assertion merit, and maybe rightly so you thought. You further criticised some sources I provided. So I deleted questionable materials mainly Robot Scientist, Kevin Cunningham, Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel. And urged you to single out sources that you find unreliable. Restoring reliable references and asking you gently to remove what you find unreliable doesn't qualify as POV, far from it. But since you have arbitrary definition of what qualify as POV, this sure to be expected. Removing reliable references from certain parts is considered WP:DE.
You could remove Timelines of Science (without deleting all sources), however you need to explicitly provide reasonable explanation to why you find those sources unreliable? The way I see it, the sources are of equal reliability as the ones from the Persian/Kurdish claim. Or the food scientist guy Carl W. Hall a reliable source for the Persian claim?
It's not listed as separate source, it was mixed wrongly with source number 8. (Engineering and Technology) that's probably why I didn't notice.
Nabataeus ( talk) 14:22, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
See my post above for the source (Not sources!). Second I didn't break the WP:3RR rule. It's within 24-hours period. Do the math. And how you reached the conclusion that my sources have nothing to do with the topic? Really! The sources provided for the Persian ethnicity is a food scientist guy, not a historian.
I had no idea adding reliable sources need consensus! However I am fairly familiar that removing references qualify as WP:DE
Nabataeus ( talk) 14:35, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
So, according to user:Nabataeus, Al-Khalili (a British theoretical physicist) is a reliable source for a topic about a medieval islamic guy ? Is really Ronan Needham, a specialist of Chinese civilization, reliable for this topic ??
The truth, user:Nabataeus, is that you do not have so much true reliable sources dealing with the ethnicity of that man, you know that but since you’re here for nationalistic reasons and not to contribute to an encyclopaedia, you try to add unreliable sources to push your POV, like the one you used here : Mubariz al-Din Muhammad (using a specialist of the history of Venezuela, namely Carlos Ramirez-Faria, to support an Arab ethnicity of the founder of medieval Muzaffarid dynasty ! Seriously ?!
Farawahar ( talk) 15:23, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Actually I am not here for nationalistic reasons, most of my edits are architectural/archaeological articles. I didn't say Al-Khalili is cut clear authoritative source for al-Jazari, although he studied Islamic history and authored multiple titles.
You mean Joseph Needham? The book is cooperation between two authors, Colin A. Ronan specialization is the history of science. The book is published by Cambridge, yes relatively reliable, more so than the food scientist guy.
Seriously ?!
First, I didn't delete or vandalize the article. I left the Kurdish and Persian claims, the burden of adding sources are on you. And don't talk to me of nationalistic tendencies when you vandalized Al-Kindi article with unreliable tertiary source. And removed referenced information from Mubariz al-Din article by misinterpreting a source that call the Muzaffarids as Arabo-Persian dynasty as an assertion of the Persian origin of Mubariz al-Din! How you reached that conclusion is absolutely beyond me. Astonishing. It's clear that Arabo-Persian signify two things 1. The dynasty is Arab 2. The cultural environment was Persian. Simple. The same wording is used for the Seljuks and other non-Persian dynasties in Iran.
Second, yes the sources I provided are as reliable as that of the Persian or Kurdish claims. Such as Ceccarelli who is the Chairman of the Permanent Commission for the history of Machine and Mechanism of Science. Opposed to the food scientist Carl W. Hall who authored Drying and Storage of Grains and Oilseeds, and an encyclopedia of food engineering.
As for the unreliable sources I provided, appears to be the following:
Other sources are as reliable or even more than the sources provided for his ethnicity. Removing the references definitely qualify as WP:DE.
Nabataeus ( talk) 16:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
So, if i follow your argument, i’m a vandal because i wanted to add a reliable tertiary source (namely : Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures) for the ethnicity of al-kindi ? This source is used on Wikipedia for other medieval muslim scholars (example : Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī) by far more experienced users than you and me, so learn to be a litte more modest. And other tertiary sources are also widely used (like Britannica...) , if all people using these sources were »vandals », there would not be any honest user on Wikipedia... My mistake at that time was to get engaged in an edit war with you, thinking (probably with reason, when i see your « contributions »), that i was reverting a vandal. But i can tell you that i will not get trapped like that again. Now i added encyclopedia of islam for the ethnicity of Muzaffarids and Mubariz (encyclopedia of islam states « Persian dynasty, their ancestrors came from Arabia » and Mubariz is the founder of the Muzaffarids, therefore he is a Persian with Arab origin), i think it’s by far a more reliable source than Carlos Ramirez-Faria. The Muzaffarids came to Khurassan at the time of muslim conquest of Persia, they became rulers of parts of Iran 7 centuries later, so they were deeply Persianized then... it seems to me that your lack of historical knowledge only equals your lack of honesty...
But let’s talk about you : strongly suspected of sock puppetry, removing referenced Non Arab ethnicities in many articles as soon as you can, bombarding articles with non reliable sources to push your POV, blatantly edit warring etc, etc, etc...
Who, between you and me, is a vandal ???
Anyway, i have nothing else to say to someone like you, so i think we're done here.
Farawahar ( talk) 18:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Tertiary sources are not reliable. Only used when it could be verified by reliable secondary sources. You didn't consider my warning when I asked you to provide credible materials, you further proceeded to disrupt the article, until I asked for the intervention of an Administrator.
That's the epitome of original research, it goes against WP:NOR policy:
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I will give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you gently and nicely to provide a source that assert on the Persian origin of Mubariz al-Din. Otherwise it will certainly be removed. Anyway we are off topic, please don't transfer any dispute to non-related articles, you may rise your concerns to the said talk page.
Do you fully understand and comprehend what sockpuppetry means?
Kansas seems to edit right now, not sure if he lost interest in the conversation. Your main objections (Both) is the "Most sources call him Arab" part. That was removed and will not be added. I will restore the references and delete three questionable sources from the Arab claim.
Nabataeus ( talk) 19:21, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
I haven't noticed, it appears to be done in a wrong citation style. I will separate the sources for now.
As I said, Khalili studied Islamic history and authored multiple titles, A.Ronan is specialist in the history of science, they are as reliable (even more) than Carl W. Hall. If they were removed/unqualified then likewise should the food scientist guy.
What non historical references? The topic of the sources I provided are history related. I don't believe adding sources need a consensus. My statement however did, and I will leave it out.
Most tertiary sources are not credible if it couldn't be verified by a reliable secondary source. His source didn't pass that criteria. An administrator was asked, and he explicitly stated that it's tertiary, if the matter is disputed other sources should be provided. Also Wikipedia's policy is quite clear concerning the matter:
- The distinction between tertiary and secondary sources is important, because WP:No original research policy states: "Articles may make an analytic or evaluative claim only if that has been published by a reliable secondary source."
- Simple facts: A tertiary source is most often used for reference citations for basic and fairly trivial facts that are not likely to be disputed and can be verified in other sources. Examples include various vernacular names for a species, the pronunciation of a foreign word, or a baseball player's statistics in a particular year.
Nabataeus ( talk) 14:17, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
@ GreenMeansGo:
Thanks for the clarification. The source that was provided, minor being contradictory, was not highly qualified. The reliability of the source was asked in [18], and the respond was the following:
: although it is tertiary and not secondary it should be OK, provided the ethnicity is not a matter of controversy. If it is controversial then I'd recommend additional sources. Guy ( Help!) 23:30, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
The administrator emphasized his caution, as long as the matter is not disputed the source "should" be "OK".
Nabataeus ( talk) 17:16, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Kansas Bear: You misunderstood me, Al-khalili is not an authoritative on the background of al-Jazari. So does Carl W. Hall who specialize mainly in food science. Contrary to W. Hall, Al,Khalili had actually studied Islamic history. Either both are deleted or none. That's my argument. Best regards.
And what's wrong with separating sources? That's how usually references are cited.
Nabataeus ( talk) 17:32, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
This is the typical behavior of a POV pusher who confuses this encyclopedia and his personal blog...
Farawahar ( talk) 20:47, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
I have not read through the walls of text above. I did, however dig up a biography. The most salient point in it is that it does not address his ethnicity at all because there evidently is no information about it in his book which they say is the only existent source of biographical information. The relevant quote is
His name is “Al-Shaykh Rais Al-Amal Badii Al-Zaman Abu Al-Izz Ibn Ismail Ibn Al-Razzaz Al-Jazari”. This long name is actually a combination of his title and his real name. The first three titles “Al-Shaykh Rais Al-Amal” indicate that he was a notorious chief engineer, “Badii Al-Zaman” the best of all times, “Abu El-Izz” the well respected, “Ibn Ismail” sun of Ismail (his father), “Ibn Al-Razzaz” his grandfather, and “Al-Jazari” indicates that his family came from Al-Jazira, which is the region in northern Syria and Iraq between the two rivers Tigre and Euphrates (Fig. 1).
He lived most of his life away from his homeland in Diyar Bikr in Upper Mesopotamia, which is in present-day southern Turkey. He was in the service of three consecutive Artuqid rulers: Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn Arslan (1174–1185), Qutb al-Din Sukman ibn Muhammad (1185–1200) and Nasir al-Din Mahmud ibn Muhammad (1200–1222). The only known information about his life is that given in his book.
• Marco Ceccarelli, ed. (2010). Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science - Part 2. Springer. pp. 1–21. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-2346-9. ISBN 978-90-481-2345-2.
From that I would suggest that there simply be no discussion of his ethnicity. While there may be sources that make educated guesses or flat out assumptions that is all they are and unless they specifically address their claim and back it up ie they specifically sought to identify his ethnicity through academic investigation, they are not reliable for claims of ethnicity. Jbh Talk 18:31, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
He was an Arab live and these is the sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] الرشيد ( talk) 16:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
References
Many users are trying to include an ethnicity for this scholar. It seems that this kind of disruption has increased significantly since the references about his ethnic background have been removed from the article and listed here. I would like to have other users' opinion as to bring back the references in the main space of the article in order to lower the disruption (even if it appears that references about his ethnicity are only a few and not the best ones for ethnicity claims). Kansas Bear Jbhunley your opinions are more than welcome about this proposal. Cheers.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 22:35, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Would it be possible to construct a few sentences that would acknowledge all the apparent disputed "claims" that al-Jazari was (either) Arab, Turkish, or Kurdish, by citing the key evidence for each claim? This then not only informs the reader that there is some disagreement on this matter, but also allows the reader to make their own decision based on the evidence (or to decide not to make a choice {credit to Neil Peart}). - AppleBsTime ( talk) 14:41, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
Agreed, then the reader can also judge from the quality of the sources. Amr ibn Kulthoumعمرو بن كلثوم ( talk) 00:40, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
The ethnicity of this scholar is a matter of disruption, since many people (IP/brand new accounts) often show up to add "Kurd" or "Arab" or "XXX". Taking a look at this version of the article, one can see that this scholar has been variously described as Kurd, Arab or Persian, i suggest to add back these ethnicities along with the relevant sources. @ Kansas Bear, HistoryofIran, and C.Fred: Thoughts ?---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 05:42, 27 April 2023 (UTC)