ad-Dīnawarī

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Abū Hanīfa Ahmad ibn Dāwūd ad-Dīnawarī ( Arabic أبو حنيفة أحمد بن داود الدينورِي, DMG Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad b. Dāwūd ad-Dīnawarī ; born 828 in Dinawar ; d. 889 or 896 ) was a Kurdish botanist , historian , geographer , astronomer and mathematician . He studied astronomy, mathematics and philology in Isfahan , Kufa and Basra . Adh-Dhahabī names him in his scholarly biography as one of the most diverse scholars of his time.

Works

His most famous work is a botanical book Kitāb an-nabāt  /كتاب النبات / 'The Book of Plants'. He is named among the first to write a work in this genre of Islamic science. The author relied less on botany than on the names of plants mentioned in the poetry of ancient Arabic poetry , which he discussed from the standpoint of philology and lexicography .

With his historical work al-achbār at-tiwāl  /الأخبار الطوال / al-aḫbār aṭ-ṭiwāl  / 'The great (long) stories' he set a milestone in Islamic historiography . Because Iran is at the center of world history . The Persians and Alexander the Great played the main roles in ancient times. The author treats the history of the Sasanids in detail, the foundation of Islam and the early Islamic period, on the other hand, which took place in the time of Chosrau II . After a short version of the history of the Arabs and the Umayyads , the Islamic history of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (from 685) to the time of the Abbasid al-Mu'tasim bi-'llāh (until 842) is briefly presented.

His other works, of which Ibn an-Nadīm names seventeen titles, have not survived.

literature

  • Carl Brockelmann : History of Arabic Literature . Second edition adapted to the supplement volumes. Vol. 1. Brill, Leiden 1943, pp. 127-128. First supplement volume. Brill, Leiden 1937, p. 187.
  • The Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Vol. 2. Brill, Leiden 1991, p. 300

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In the province of Kermanshah ; see: Yāqūt ; Muʿǧam al-buldān. Vol. 2. Beirut 1956, pp. 545-546.
  2. ^ Siyar aʿlām an-nubalāʾ . Vol. 13. Beirut 1984, p. 422.
  3. ↑ C. Brockelmann (1943), p. 127; C. Brockelmann (1937), p. 187; B. Silberberg: The book of plants by Abū Hanifa Ahmed ibn Dāʾud ad-Dīnawarī . A contribution to the history of botany among the Arabs. In: Journal of Assyriology and Related Fields (ZA), Vol. 24 (1910), pp. 225–265; Vol. 25 (1911), pp. 39-88
  4. ↑ The work was first published by Wladimir Guirgass (Brill, Leiden 1888). C. Brockelmann (1943), p. 128. See: Ignace Kratchkowsky: Abū Ḥanīfa ad-Dīnawerī. Kitab al-Aḫbār aṭ-Ṭiwāl . Préface, variants et index. Brill, Leiden 1912. A new edition of the work was published in Cairo in 1960: Heribert Busse: Arabische Historiographie und Geographie . In: Helmut Gätje (Hrsg.): Outline of Arabic Philology . Vol. II: Literary Studies. Wiesbaden 1987, p. 271, note 18
  5. ↑ Heribert Busse: Arabian Historiography and Geography . In: Helmut Gätje (Hrsg.): Outline of Arabic Philology . Vol. II: Literary Studies. Wiesbaden 1987, p. 271; C. Brockelmann (1943), p. 128
  6. ↑ Fihrist . Ed. Riḍā Taǧaddud. P. 86. Tehran 1971
personal data
SURNAME ad-Dīnawarī
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud Dinawari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish Iranian scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 828
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinawar
DATE OF DEATH 889 or 895