Jamal al-Din al-Watwat

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

External links

• "al-Waṭwāṭ", Filāḥa Texts Project