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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: People from Basra, Alhazen, Ovadia Yosef, Brethren of Purity, Rita Katz, Al-Jahiz, Hasan of Basra, Paul Mefano, Rabia Basri, Hassan Abdul Said, Yefet ben Ali, Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, Mashallah ibn Athari, Ibn Sirin, Abdul-Latif Ali al-Mayah, Nawfal Shamoun, Abd-All h Ibn al-Muqaffa, Sa'ad Al-Faqih, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Ezzedine Salim, Faisel Laibi Sahi, Abdel Falah al-Sudani, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq, Rahma Mezher, Mohammed Nasser, Saadi Youssef, Al-Hariri of Basra, Sama Raena Alshaibi, Seta Hagopian, Daisy Al-Amir, Antonio Albadran, Al-Asma'i, Salim al-Shimiri, Abu 'Ubaida, David Petel, Muslim Mubarak, Harith al-Muhasibi, Eliyahu Nawi, Al-Baqillani, Nawaf Salal, Nawaf Falah, Ibn Duraid, Alaa Abdul-Hussein, Ismail Fatah Al Turk, Farqad as-Sabakhi, Najem Wali, Abdelhussain Saddam, Abdel Amir Abbud Rahima, Luay Hamza Abbas. Excerpt: (Arabic:, Persian:, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1040 in Cairo) was a Persian scientist and polymath. Some sources state that he was an Arab. He is frequently referred to as Ibn al-Haytham, and sometimes as al-Basri (Arabic: ), after his birthplace in the city of Basra. Alhazen made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to physics, astronomy, mathematics, ophthalmology, philosophy, visual perception, and to the scientific method. He was also nicknamed Ptolemaeus Secundus ("Ptolemy the Second") or simply "The Physicist" in medieval Europe. Alhazen wrote insightful commentaries on works by Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Greek mathematician Euclid. Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq, he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76. Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he...
