Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī

Imam Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dāwūd ad Dinawari (Arabic أبو حنيفة أحمد بن داود الدينوري, DMG Imam Abu Hanifa Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd ad Dinawari; . * 828 Dinawar; † 889 or 895 ) was a Kurdish botanist, historian, geographer, astronomer and mathematicians. He studied astronomy, mathematics and philology in Isfahan, Kufa and Basra. Adh- Dhahabi calls him in his scholarly biography as one of the most versatile scholars of his time.

Works

His most famous work is a botanical book Kitaab at - Nabat / كتاب النبات /, The Book of Plants '. He is among the first authors who had written a piece in this genre of Islamic Sciences, called. The author relied less on plants than to those mentioned in the poetry of ancient Arabic poetry plant names, which they examined from the standpoint of philology and lexicography from.

With his historical work al - Akhbar at- tiwāl / الأخبار الطوال / al - Ahbar aṭ - ṭiwāl /, Large ( long ) stories ' he set a milestone in Islamic historiography. Because the focus of world history is Iran. The Persians and Alexander the Great in ancient times play the main role. The author discusses the history of the Sasanian detail, the foundation of Islam and the early Islamic period, however, relatively short, have taken place in the time of Chosroes II. After a summary of the history of the Arabs and of the Umayyad Islamic history of Abd al -Malik ibn Marwan ( of 685 ) until the time of the Abbasid al - Mu'tasim bi- ' llāh (up to 842 ) are briefly described.

His other works, of which Ibn an - Nadim lists seventeen titles have not been preserved.