Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:More footnotes Ahmad Yousef Al-Hassan (Template:Langx) (June 25, 1925 – April 28, 2012[1]) was a Palestinian/Syrian/Canadian historian of Arabic and Islamic science and technology,[2] educated in Jerusalem, Cairo, and London with a PhD in Mechanical engineering from University College London. He was Dean of Engineering and later President of the University of Aleppo where he founded the Institute for the History of Arabic Science (IHAS) and was its first director.[1] He also served as Minister of Petroleum, Electricity and Mineral Resources of Syria prior to 1971. He migrated to Canada in 1982.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Positions and awards
- Visiting Professor at the Department for the History and Philosophy of Science, University College, LondonScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Visiting Professor at the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of TorontoScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Professor at the Institute for the History of Arabic Science (IHAS), University of AleppoScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Recipient of the Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur of the French RepublicScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- 1925 births
- 2012 deaths
- 20th-century Syrian historians
- Syrian Muslims
- Historians of science
- Historians of technology
- Oil and mineral reserves ministers of Syria
- Alumni of University College London
- Academic staff of the University of Aleppo
- People from Umm al-Fahm
- Syrian emigrants to Canada
- Syrian expatriates in Egypt
- Syrian expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Presidents of universities in Syria
- Recipients of the Legion of Honour