Jamal al-Din al-Watwat explained
Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Kutubi (Arabic: جمال الدين، محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحيى بن علي المروي الأنصاري، الوراق الكتبي), known as al-Waṭwāṭ (Arabic: الوطواط, 'the bat', 632-718 AH/1235-1318 CE) was a scholar and bookseller; he was born and died in Cairo.[1]
Works and editions
Al-Waṭwāṭ's works include:[2]
- Arabic: غرر الخصائص الواضحة وعرر النقائص الفاضحة
- Arabic: مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر (Mabāhij al-fikar wa manāhij al-ʿibar, 'Delightful Concepts and the Path to Precepts'). The fourth section on this work was the first original Arabic work on agriculture since Ibn Wahshiyya's tenth-century Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya, of which al-Waṭwāṭ made extensive use.[3]
- Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá Jamāl al-Dīn al-Kutubī al-maʻrūf bi-al-Waṭwāṭ, Arabic: مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر : القسم النباتي [''Mabāhij al-fikar wa-manāhij al-ʿibar: al-qism al-nabātī''], ed. by Nāṣir Ḥusayn Aḥmad (Baghdād: al-Majmaʻ al-ʻIlmī, 2008).
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.filaha.org/author_al_watwat.html Al-Waṭwāṭ
- Book: Muhanna, Elias. The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition. 2017. Princeton University Press. 9780691175560. 43. .
- Toufic Fahd, 'Botany and Agriculture', in Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, ed. by Roshdi Rashed, 3 vols (Routledge, 1996), III 813-52 (p. 846); .
