A philological and zoological description of the bird names given by Yāqūt Al-Ḥamawī and Zakariā Al Qazwīnī in their description of the Island of Tinnīs

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The aim of this article is to comment philologically and biologically the list of 134/135 bird names included in the descriptions of the island of Tinnīs in Lake Manzalah in the Delta of the Nile which are given by Yāqūt ibn Abdullah al-ḥamawī (1179-1229)1 in his Mu‘ğam al-Buldān and by Zakariā b. Murḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (1203-1283)2 in his Cosmography, Kitāb fī ‘Ağā’ib al-Maẖlūqāt wa
Ġarā’ib al-Mawğūdāt.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1
JournalArabic Biology and Medicine
Volume3
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)1-45
Number of pages45
ISSN2489-186X
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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