Ab? al-'Iz Ibn Ism?'?l ibn al-Raz?z al-Jazar? (1136-1206) was a prominent Arab polymath: an Islamic scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Iraq, who lived during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). He is best known for writing the Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al- handasiyya (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.

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