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Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazi

Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī or Marvazī (; fl. 1056/57–1124/25 CE) was a physician and author of Nature of Animals ( ').

He was a native of Merv, part of the Khorasan region in modern-day Turkmenistan.

Nature of Animals

Al-Marwazī drew upon the works of Aristotle, Dioscorides, Galen, Oribasius, Timotheos of Gaza, Paul of Aegina, and the Muslim scholar Al-Jahiz. The work comprises five parts:

  • On human beings
  • On domestic and wild quadrupeds
  • On land and marine birds
  • On venomous creatures
  • On marine animals

Physician

Al-Marwazi served as physician at the courts of the Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah I and his successors. As a physician, he recorded observations of parasitic worms.

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