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Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Kutubi (Arabic: جمال الدين، محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحيى بن علي المروي الأنصاري، الوراق الكتبي), known as al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط, 'the bat', 632-718 AH/1235-1318 CE) was a scholar and bookseller; he was born and died in Cairo.[1]

Works and editions

Al-Waṭwāṭ's works include:[2]

  • غرر الخصائص الواضحة وعرر النقائص الفاضحة
  • مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر (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's tenth-century Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya, of which al-Waṭwāṭ made extensive use.[3]
    • Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá Jamāl al-Dīn al-Kutubī al-maʻrūf bi-al-Waṭwāṭ, مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر : القسم النباتي [Mabāhij al-fikar wa-manāhij al-ʿibar: al-qism al-nabātī], ed. by Nāṣir Ḥusayn Aḥmad (Baghdād: al-Majmaʻ al-ʻIlmī, 2008).

References

  1. [1]
    Al-Waṭwāṭ, Filāḥa Texts Project.
  2. [2]
    Muhanna, Elias (2017). The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition. Princeton University Press. p. 43. ISBN 9780691175560..
  3. [3]
    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); ISBN 9780415124126.


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