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Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazi

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Nature of Animals
Physician
References

Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī or Marvazī ({{lang-ar|شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي}}; fl. 1056/57–1124/25 CE) was a physician and author of Nature of Animals ({{lang|ar|كتاب طبائع الحيوان البحري والبري}} {{transl|ar|Kitāb Ṭabāʾiʿ al-Ḥayawān al-Baḥrī wa-al-Barrī}}).

He was a native of Merv, Khurasan, Persia.

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:^[1]

On human beings
On domestic and wild quadrupets.
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.^[1] As a physician, he recorded observations of parasitic worms.^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite book|last=Hopkins|first=J. F. P.|title=Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history|year=2000|publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers|location=Princeton, N.J|isbn=1558762418|page=24}}
2. ^¹{{cite book|last=Egerton|first=Frank N.|title=Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel|year=2012|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0520953630|page=20}}

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