Alhazen of Basra,poem

The transcription is about a book called "Al-Azzam of the Bar Az-Zurah" written by Brian Turner in 2005. The speaker imagines going back in time to talk to Al-Azzam and asks about the inner light within us and how light defines us. Al-Azzam of the Bar Az-Zurah, written by Brian Turner, published in Hewlett-Pullard, 2005. If I could travel a thousand years back to August, 1004, to a small tent where Al-Azzam had fallen asleep among books about sunsets, shadows, and light itself, I wouldn't ask whether light travels in a straight line, or what governs the laws of refraction, or how we discover the bridgework of analytical geometry. I would ask about the light within us, what shines in the mind's great repository of dreams, and whether you study the deep shadows daylight brings, how light defines us.