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Al-Damiri

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Egyptian writer on canon law and natural history

WritersLived 1341 to 1405 · aged 64
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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. 1371.

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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.

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Lived 1341 to 1405 · aged 64
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