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Also known as Kamal al-Din al-Damiri, Damiri, Muhammad ibn Musa

Al-Damiri (1341–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic from late medieval Cairo. He was best known for his writing on Muslim jurisprudence and natural history. He wrote the first known systematic work on zoological knowledge in Arabic, the Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, 1371.

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Religious biography.religion
Islam
Religious biography.occupation
Zoologist, Jurist, Scholar, Muhaddith, Theologian
Religious biography.era
Late Middle Ages (Mamluk era)
Religious biography.name
Al-Damiri
Religious biography.title
Kamal al-DinAl-Ḥāfiẓ
Religious biography.birth_date
1341 CE
Religious biography.birth_place
Cairo, Mamluk dynasty
Religious biography.death_place
Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate
Religious biography.region
Egypt
Religious biography.alma_mater
Al-Azhar University
Religious biography.denomination
Sunni
Religious biography.jurisprudence
Shafi'i
Religious biography.creed
Ash'ari
Religious biography.main_interests
Kalam (Islamic theology) Fiqh, Hadith, Arabic, Zoology
Religious biography.notable_ideas
Elaborate systematically Arabic zoological knowledge
Religious biography.works
Life of Animals (Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, c.1371)
Religious biography.influences
Al-Shafi'iAbu al-Hasan al-Ash'ariJamal al-Din al-IsnawiIbn AqilTaj al-Din al-SubkiSiraj al-Din al-BulqiniZain al-Din al-IraqiIbn al-Mulaqqin
Religious biography.influenced
Taqi al-Din al-Fasial-Maqrizi

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Al-Damiri (1341–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic from late medieval Cairo. He was best known for his writing on Muslim jurisprudence and natural history. He wrote the first known systematic work on zoological knowledge in Arabic, the Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, 1371.

==Life== Al-Damiri was born in 1341 (742 AH) in Cairo, where he lived, learned, graduated, and died. His family’s origins go back to the countryside of Lower Egypt, from the village of Damira, close to Samannud on the eastern or Damietta branch of the Nile in the Delta. Since his youth, he worked with his father in a sewing shop, and his love for animals continued to grow with him, along with his passion for science and other knowledge, which prompted his father to direct him to complete his religious studies at Al-Azhar University.

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