• Source: Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazi

Sharaf al" target="_blank">al-Zamān Ṭāhir al" target="_blank">al-Marwazī or Marvazī (Arabic: شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056/57–1124/25 CE) was a physician and author of Nature of Animals (كتاب طبائع الحيوان البحري والبري Kitāb Ṭabāʾiʿ al" target="_blank">al-Ḥayawān al" target="_blank">al-Baḥrī wa-al" target="_blank">al-Barrī).
He was a native of Merv, part of the Khorasan region in modern-day Turkmenistan.




Nature of Animals


al" target="_blank">Al-Marwazī drew upon the works of Aristotle, Dioscorides, Galen, Oribasius, Timotheos of Gaza, Paul of Aegina, and the Muslim scholar al" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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.




References






Bibliography


Minorsky, V. (1942). Sharaf al" target="_blank">al-Zaman Tahir Marvazi on China, the Turks and India. London: The Royal Asiatic Society. p. 234. Retrieved 1 June 2023.

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