Known in the West as Alhazen, Ibn Al-Haytham was born in 965 CE in Basrah, and was educated in Basrah and Baghdad. Thereafter, he went to Egypt, where he was asked to find ways of controlling the ...

In 1011, Ibn al-Haytham was placed under house arrest by a powerful caliph in Cairo. Though unwelcome, the seclusion was just what he needed to explore the nature of light. Over the next decade, Ibn ...

Ibn Al-Haytham’s scientific skepticism should be emulated across the Arab World. Mohammed Yahia The Book of Optics is Ibn Al-Haytham seven-volume treatise on optics The UN has called 2015 the ...

LONDON, Jan 5 A Muslim scientist, Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, born in AD 965, is said to have made it possible, with his pioneering work in physics, for Isaac Newton to fathom the universe and ...

The celebrated 11th century physicist and mathematic genius, Alhasan Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West by his Latinized first name as Alhazen, would come alive at a family event in the United ...

Ibn al-Haytham's 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published exactly 1000 years ago, is often cited alongside Newton's Principia as one of the most influential books in physics. Yet very ...

Leading Arab scientist Ibn Al Haytham worked in the 11th century, during the golden age of the Muslim civilisation and is seen as a role model in many Muslim and non-Muslim countries, with his ...

Philip Ball tells the story of Ibn al-Haytham, a native of present-day Iraq, who in the early 11th Century, showed how light and the human eye collaborate to produce our sense of vision.

LONDON, Jan 5: A Muslim scientist, Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, born in AD 965, is said to have made it possible, with his pioneering work in physics, for Isaac Newton to fathom the universe and ...