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The science of light and vision. The editor of the Kitab al-Manazir holds that optics was among the Greeks a branch of mathematics; Ibn al-Haytham made it a compound inquiry of the natural and the mathematical sciences, studying light's three conditions: rectilinear radiation, reflection and refraction 1.
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- Kitab al-Manazir, Books 1-3, ed. Abd al-Hamid Sabra (Kuwait 1983) , p.9
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islam.museum contributors. “Optics”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/optics/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.