Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Kutubi ( ar, جمال الدين، محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحيى بن علي المروي الأنصاري، الوراق الكتبي), known as al-Waṭwāṭ (, 'the bat', 632-718 AH/1235-1318 CE) was a
scholar
A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researc ...
and bookseller; he was born and died in Cairo.
Works and editions
Al-Waṭwāṭ's works include:
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(''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
( ar, ابن وحشية), died , was a Nabataean (Aramaic-speaking, rural Iraqi) agriculturalist, toxicologist, and alchemist born in Qussīn, near Kufa in Iraq. He is the author of the '' Nabataean Agriculture'' (), an influential Arabic work ...
's tenth-century ''
Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya'', of which al-Waṭwāṭ made extensive use.
[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); .]
** Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá Jamāl al-Dīn al-Kutubī al-maʻrūf bi-al-Waṭwāṭ,
'Mabāhij al-fikar wa-manāhij al-ʿibar: al-qism al-nabātī'' ed. by Nāṣir Ḥusayn Aḥmad (Baghdād: al-Majmaʻ al-ʻIlmī, 2008).
Further reading
Al-Waṭwāṭ Filāḥa Texts Project.
References
1225 births
1318 deaths
13th-century Arabic writers
14th-century Arabic writers
Encyclopedists of the medieval Islamic world
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