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That's still a leap forward. I looked the guy up, apparently op named the wrong person, his name is
>Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen, 965–1040 CE). A scientist and polymath of the Islamic Golden Age, called the "father of modern optics".
>He studied light, vision, and sound propagation.
>In his masterpiece Kitāb al-Manāẓir (Book of Optics, ca. 1020 CE), Ibn al Haytham discussed How sound travels through air in a manner similar to light through transparent media.
>How reflected sound (echoes) can be used to infer distance and geometry of a space (for example, how you can tell the size of a chamber or a mosque by the echo delay).
>That sound takes time to travel — it is not instantaneous, unlike Aristotle’s belief.
>sensory delay (sight vs. hearing) is not a psychological illusion but a physical difference in propagation time through different mediums.

He seems to have done some empirical and foundational work, influencing renaissance scholars in physics, and al andulusian scholars.
Though he himself is from bagdad, during the fatimid dynasty. He's still an arab just not from the Islamic spain.