Question
The mathematician Ibn al-Haytham worked for this ruler. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this erratic ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate who destroyed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and ordered all dogs in Egypt to be slaughtered. This “Mad Caliph” is venerated in the Druze religion.
ANSWER: al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
[10e] To escape al-Hakim’s wrath, al-Haytham feigned madness after his plan to build one of these structures went awry. Al-Haytham’s project would have been located at Aswan, where one of these structures was built in the 1960s.
ANSWER: dams [accept more specific answers like embankment dams]
[10m] Al-Haytham’s treatise Kitab al-Manazir is a major medieval text in this scientific discipline. Isaac Newton’s book titled for this discipline presents a “corpuscular” theory of its central phenomenon.
ANSWER: optics [prompt on physics; prompt on the study of light or sight]
<Michael Bentley, History - World - Middle Eastern> ~19027~ <Editor: Jordan Brownstein>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| Thomas Jefferson A | Barrington A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |