Al-Damiri

Al-Damiri (1341–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri, was an Egyptian Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic from late medieval Cairo. He was best known for his writing on Muslim jurisprudence and natural history. He wrote the first known systematic work on zoological knowledge in Arabic, the Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, c.1371.