Al-Damiri

Al-Damiri
TitleKamal al-Din
Al-Ḥāfiẓ
Personal
Born1341 CE
Died1405 (aged 63–64)
ReligionIslam
EraLate Middle Ages
(Mamluk era)
RegionEgypt
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari[1]
Main interest(s)Kalam (Islamic theology) Fiqh, Hadith, Arabic, Zoology
Notable idea(s)Elaborate systematically Arabic zoological knowledge
Notable work(s)Life of Animals (Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, c.1371)
Alma materAl-Azhar University
OccupationZoologist, Jurist, Scholar, Muhaddith, Theologian
Muslim leader

Al-Damiri (1341–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (Arabic: كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic from late medieval Cairo.[2] He was best known for his writing on Muslim jurisprudence and natural history.[3] He wrote the first known systematic work on zoological knowledge in Arabic, the Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, c.1371.[4]

  1. ^ "The Notables of the Shafi'i-Ash'ari school". almostaneer.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 September 2017.
  2. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 7. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1973. p. 103.
  3. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainThatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Damiri". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 788.
  4. ^ Egerton, Frank N. (2012). Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel. University of California Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0520953635.