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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

Engineering and technology Science in Muslim societies today

Overview

A water clock invented by al-Jazari and described in his book on mechanical devices, about 1206 CE; a picture of scientific technology in the Ayyubid period. ¹

People and things also explored

The Maʾrib Dam· Islamic lustreware· Joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean· Blacas ewer· Piri Reis map· Francis Bacon· Science and Islam· Lorong Waktu

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islam.museum contributors. “The Elephant Clock”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/saat-al-fil/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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