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ʿAllāmah Kamāl al-Dīn al-Damīrī [d. 808AH/1405CE]
محمد ابن موسى الدميرى Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Damīrī was a great Egyptian scholar of Shāfiʿī fiqh, ḥadīth and literature who is best known for his zoological compendium Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (The Life of Animals), in which he gathered all available philological, medical, proverbial, folkloric, and divinatory material relating to animals. The National Library of Medicine has an important copy of this compendium-one that was transcribed before the author’s death. It is arranged in an alphabetical listing of over 1000 animals that are mentioned in the Qurʾān, ḥadīth and classical literature, and the research has been compiled from over 500 works and
