1001 Inventions and the world of Ibn Al-haytham “1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham” is a global educational campaign about the 11th century scientist Ibn al-Haytham that aims to ignite curiosity and encourage young people to study and pursue science careers while promoting intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and mutual understanding. nAtIonAL short fILm stArrIng InterActIve exhIbIts musIc ALbum by GeoGraphic hands-on workshops omAr shArIf And LIve shows sAmI yusuf book www.IbnAlhaytham.com www.1001inventions.com www.Light2015.org International year of Light In January 2015, unesco and 1001 Inventions launched “1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham” global educational campaign to celebrate the International year of Light and Light-based technologies (IyL2015) and the scientifc legacy of the remarkable 11th century scientist Al-hasan Ibn al-haytham. The united nations proclaimed Year of Light also celebrates noteworthy anniversaries including Ibn al-Haytham’s ground-breaking work the ”Book of Optics”. 1001 Inventions, an award-winning British based organisation, is a Founding Partner of the International Year of Light. If learning the truth is the scientist’s goal... Then he must make himself the enemy of all that he reads. Ibn al-haytham Al hasan Ibn al-haytham Ibn al-Haytham was a pioneering 11th century on such experimentation, Ibn al-Haytham concluded scientifc thinker who made important contributions that vision is accomplished by rays coming from to the understanding of vision, optics and light. external luminous sources and entering the eye, His methodology of investigation, in particular rather than through rays emitted from the eye as using experiment to verify theory, shows certain was commonly believed. similarities to what later became known as the Ibn al-Haytham was born in Basra, which is now modern scientifc method. in Iraq, at the height of the Golden Age of Muslim Ibn al-Haytham used a dark chamber he called Civilisation, a creative era that spanned a thousand “Albeit Almuzlim,” translated into Latin as “camera years from the 7th century onwards, from Spain to obscura” – the device that forms the basis of China. Men and women of diferent faiths photography. He observed that light coming and cultures built upon knowledge of ancient through a tiny hole travelled in straight lines and civilisations making contributions that helped projected an image onto the opposite wall. Based shape our world today. www.IbnAlhaytham.com.