Al-Damiri [SEP] country of citizenship
Al-Damiri
Al-Damiri (1344–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (), was an Arab Muslim writer from Egypt on canon law and natural history.
He wrote the first work to elaborate systematically Arabic zoological knowledge.
Life.
Al-Damiri belonged to one of the two towns called Damira near Damietta and spent his life in Egypt. Of the Shafiite school of law, he became professor of tradition in the Rukniyya at Cairo, and also
on authority of Wahb ibn Munabbih, is one source he specifically named as being used in his summary. This so-called al-Damiri's account is considered merely to a later redaction of al-Qazwini's cosmography printed on the margins, and it may be note that Qazwini's account also is given as a narrative in the words of Wahb ibn Munabbih. A translation of Al-Damiri into French was undertaken by Nicolas Perron. The bull's name was however "Rakaboûnâ" (Rakabūnā) in al-Damiri