'Abbas Ibn Firnas, or 'Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas (810 – 887 A.D.) (Arabic: العباس بن فرناس) was a Berber- « Ibn Firnas ('Abbâs) » by Ahmed Djebbar, Dictionnaire culturel des science, by Collective under the direction of Nicolas Witkowski, Du Regard Editions, 2003, ISBN 2-84105-128-5. - http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1910.htm http://www.uh.edu/, 'Abbas Ibn Firnas by John H. Lienhard. humanitarian, technologist, and chemist who lived in the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in Al-Andalus.