Al-Damiri

Kamal al-Din ibn Muhammad ibn Musa al- Damiri, (Arabic كمال الدين بن محمد بن موسى الدميرى, DMG Kamāl ad - Dīn Muḥammad b b Mūsā ad - Damiri, .. Known as Damiri; * 1344/1349 in Cairo, † November 1405 ), was an Arab historian and natural law scholar.

Damiri held for a long time professor of the traditions of the Shafi'i school of the Koran Rukniyya and professor at the El Azhar Mosque (both in Cairo ) and made several times the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wrote a large zoological Dictionary: The Lives of Animals ( " Hayat - alhaiwân "), which, at 284 source works basing, 931 animals describes in detail. He organized a larger and a smaller version of it, of which he is said to have already completed the former 1371. Samuel Bochart in his Hierozoicon has used this animal life. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen, Silvestre de Sacy and others have published short texts from it. A Persian translation of the work is in the library of Paris. An unpublished French translation has made ​​Petis François de la Croix.

The animal lexicon contains hardly Zoology (about animal geography ), rather Ethnography, Linguistics ( animal names regionally, etymological ), Legal ( Speisenvorschriften! ) and religious relations ( doctrines of the prophets and of Imanen, legends, proverbs, poets statements to the animals ).

Alfred Edmund Brehm 's work ( Heiat el Heiwan ) his " precursor " ( Sheikh Kemal edin Demiri ) 1847 met at the Madrasa of Cairo and quotes from the " animal life " the story of the Jews in Aila ( Eilat ), the Sabbath is not stopped and were therefore transformed by God into baboons ( what is already mentioned in the Koran, Sura 7, 163-166 - Arab science has never emancipated from religious or natural influences, and Brehm fought like also decided yet at the time in the West [ Enlightenment, Kulturkampf ] ). ( Brehm's Animal Life, 2nd Edition, Volume I (1900 ), page 170).

Works

  • Ad- Hayat al - Damiri 's Hayawan (A Zoological Lexicon ) ISBN 3-8298-7013-2
  • Kitab Hayat al - Hayawan ISBN 3-8298-7010-8
  • Kitab al - Hayawan. Texts and Studies ISBN 3-8298-7014-0

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  • Naturalist
  • Born in the 14th century
  • Died in 1405
  • Man
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