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DAMIRI

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common name of KAMAL UD-Dim MUHAMMAD See also:IBN MUsA UD-DAMIRI (1344-1405), Arabian writer on See also:canon See also:law and natural See also:history, belonged to one of the two towns called Damira near See also:Damietta and spent his See also:life in See also:Egypt. Of the Shafi'ite school of law, he became See also:professor of tradition in the Rukniyya at See also:Cairo, and also at the See also:mosque el-Azhar; in connexion with this See also:work he wrote a commentary on the Minhaj ut-Talibin of See also:Nawawi (q.v.). He is, however, better known in the history of literature for his Life of Animals (Hayat ul-Hayawan), which treats in alphabetic See also:order of 931 animals mentioned in the See also:Koran, the traditions and the poetical and proverbial literature of the See also:Arabs. The work is a compilation from over 500 See also:prose writers and nearly 200 poets. The correct spelling of the names of the animals is given with an explanation of their meanings. The use of the animals in See also:medicine, their lawfulness or unlawfulness as See also:food, their position in folk-See also:lore are the See also:main subjects treated, while occasionally See also:long irrelevant sections on See also:political history are introduced. The work exists in three forms. The fullest has been published several times in Egypt; a mediate and a See also:short recension exist in See also:manuscript. Several See also:editions have been made at various times of extracts, among them the poetical one by See also:Suyuti (q.v.), which was translated into Latin by A. Ecchelensis (See also:Paris, 1667). Bochartus in his Hierozoicon (1663) used Damiri's work. There is a See also:translation of the whole into See also:English by See also:Lieutenant-See also:Colonel Jayakar (Bombay, 1906-1908).

(G. W.

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