Jamal al-Din al-Watwat
Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Kutubi, known as al-Waṭwāṭ was a scholar and bookseller; he was born and died in Cairo.
Works and editions
Al-Waṭwāṭ's works include:- غرر الخصائص الواضحة وعرر النقائص الفاضحة
- مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر. The fourth section on this work was the first original Arabic work on agriculture since Ibn Wahshiyya's tenth-century Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya, of which al-Waṭwāṭ made extensive use.
- * Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá Jamāl al-Dīn al-Kutubī al-maʻrūf bi-al-Waṭwāṭ, مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر : القسم النباتي, ed. by Nāṣir Ḥusayn Aḥmad.