A Comparative Study of Water-Lifting Technology in Mankali's Kitāb Al-Ḥiyal fī al-Ḥurūb With al-Jazarī’s Al-Jāmi‘bayn al-‘Ilm wa al-‘Amal al-Nāfi‘ fī Ṣinā‘at al-Ḥiyal

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1 PhD student, Institute of History of Science , University of Tehran.Tehran .Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Institute of History of Science, University of Tehran.Tehran. Iran.

Abstract

Although some of the ideas contained in mechanical and engineering works had roots in the Far East, India, and ancient Iran, technology and mechanics in the Islamic world drew most of their inspiration from ancient Greece. Given the importance and efficiency of irrigation devices, translating Greek works was the most effective way to obtain such equipment. With the support of the ruling authorities in various parts of the Islamic world, craftsmen, often lacking academic education, began to build and operate the devices. Along with the expansion and rise of science and technology in the Golden Age of Islam, great scientists such as Benoumousi, AL-Jazari, AL-Esfazari, AL-Rased Damashki, etc. took steps to improve Greco-Roman devices and invent equipment with greater power and efficiency, and with automatic and self-contained operation. To understand the extent to which these scientists were influenced by the technical knowledge of their predecessors, the best way is to compare their equipment with that of Greek books translated into Arabic. The book Al-Ḥiyal fī al-Ḥurūb can be an example of a translation of Greek technology books, in which the eleventh section discusses the construction and use of a number of irrigation devices. In this article, we intend to compare the rinsing devices of the version of Al-Ḥiyal fī al-Ḥurūb, translated by Ibn Mankali (778 AH/1376 AD), with the rinsing devices of Al-Jami' bin al-'ilm and al-'amal al-nafi' fi sana' Al-Ḥiyal by AL-Jazari, and to examine the devices of Al-Ḥiyal fī al-Ḥurūb, and to examine the influence of Greek technological texts on the works of Islamic civilization on the science of Al-Ḥiyal.

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  • Receive Date: 16 April 2025
  • Revise Date: 08 July 2025
  • Accept Date: 21 August 2025

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