At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Abbas ibn Firnas was a Muslim astronomer in al-Andalus. In his workshop he discovered a method for making crystal. Hasan Ibrahim Hasan describes his experiment with flight on a gliding machine: he rose high into the air, then fell and got up unharmed, and Hasan regards him as a forerunner of the idea of flight from the Middle Ages onward. 1
His name is linked with Cordoba. The dates of his life need an additional source.
Connections
- Related to
- Cordoba
People and things also explored
Great Mosque of Córdoba· Library of the Córdoba Palace· The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos)· Conquest of Cordoba· Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads· The enemy's capture of Cordoba· The battle of al-Rabad· The Rabad fitna in Cordoba
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abbas ibn Firnas”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abbas-ibn-firnas/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.