Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Palestinian-Syrian-Canadian historian
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About Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
- Ahmad Yousef Al-Hassan (Arabic: ???? ???? ??????) (June 25, 1925 – April 28, 2012 ) was a Palestinian/Syrian/Canadian historian of Arabic and Islamic science and technology, 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.
- He also served as Minister of Petroleum, Electricity and Mineral Resources of Syria prior to 1971. He migrated to Canada in 1982.
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