Jamal al-Din al-Watwat

Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Kutubi (), known as al-Waṭwāṭ (, 'the bat', 632-718 AH/1235-1318 CE) was a scholar and bookseller; he was born and died in Cairo.

Works and editions

Al-Waṭwāṭ's works include:

• (Mabāhij al-fikar wa manāhij al-Ê¿ibar, '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-Nabaá¹­iyya, of which al-Waá¹­wāṭ made extensive use.
• Muḥammad ibn IbrāhÄ«m ibn Yaḥyá Jamāl al-DÄ«n al-KutubÄ« al-maÊ»rÅ«f bi-al-Waá¹­wāṭ, [Mabāhij al-fikar wa-manāhij al-Ê¿ibar: al-qism al-nabātÄ«], ed. by Nāṣir Ḥusayn Aḥmad (Baghdād: al-MajmaÊ» al-Ê»IlmÄ«, 2008).

References

External links

• "al-Waá¹­wāṭ", Filāḥa Texts Project