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Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari | "Figure for Use at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Automated Slaves, Ambivalent Images, and Noneffective Machines in Al- Jazari's Compendium of the Mechanical Arts,
![Folio fromKitab fi ma`arifat al-hiyal al-handisaya (The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices) Automata by al-Jazari (d. 1206); recto: A candle clock; verso: text - National Museum of Asian Art Folio fromKitab fi ma`arifat al-hiyal al-handisaya (The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices) Automata by al-Jazari (d. 1206); recto: A candle clock; verso: text - National Museum of Asian Art](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/FS-8141_08/full/500,/0/default.jpg)