Abu Hanifah Al-Dinawari (c. 820–895 CE)
Abu Hanifah al-Dinawari was a Persian astronomer, botanist, geographer and mathematician born in ninth-century Iran. Although he published many works on a diverse range of subjects, he is most well known for his Book of Plants, or Kitab al-Nabat.
This book originally consisted of six volumes but only three have survived, and one of those is a partial reconstruction; nonetheless, this remaining set documents 482 plants in his alphabetical listing.42 Al-Dinawari gathered a lot of his own information (e.g. from Bedouins and others) as well as relying on earlier Arabic sources. There are no detailed botanical descriptions, and the writing abounds with poetry, so it is not a conventional botanical treatise in the Western sense, but nonetheless is a valuable step forward. Its main value was that it became the most comprehensive compilation of Arabic plants for many hundreds of years.More on the topic Abu Hanifah Al-Dinawari (c. 820–895 CE):
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