Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Kutubi (), known as al-Waṭwāṭ (, 'the bat', 632-718 AH/1235-1318 CE) was a
scholar
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and bookseller; he was born and died in Cairo.
Works and editions
Al-Waṭwāṭ's works include:
*
* (''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
(), 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 on agriculture, ast ...
's tenth-century ''
Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya
Kitab (, ''kitāb''), also transcribed as kitaab, is the Arabic word for "script" or "book" and may refer to:
* ''Kitaab'', a 1977 Indian Hindi-language film
* ''Kithaab'' (also ''Kitab''), a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language play
* ''Kitab'', the R ...
'', 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).
References
External links
"al-Waṭwāṭ", Filāḥa Texts Project
1235 births
1318 deaths
13th-century Arabic-language writers
14th-century Arabic-language writers
Encyclopedists of the medieval Islamic world
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