Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
His name is given to an airport, a bridge and a lunar crater — because he is said to have tried to fly. But where does that story come from? The thirty-second book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Abbas ibn Firnas: poet and inventor of Córdoba, crystal cutter and maker of a water clock — with an honest look at the story of his flight. “None holds them up except the Most Merciful.”
“Do they not see the birds above them with wings outspread and [sometimes] folded in? None holds them [aloft] except the Most Merciful.”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of science, engineering & history
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The story of Abbas ibn Firnas — verses 67:19 and 16:79, two authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline, a chart of the flight story’s sources, history notes marked separately, and a table of popular stories.