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 "id": "source/hayat-al-hayawan-damiri",
 "class": "source",
 "slug": "hayat-al-hayawan-damiri",
 "label": {
  "ar": "حياة الحيوان الكبرى لكمال الدين الدميري",
  "en": "Hayat al-Hayawan al-Kubra of Kamal al-Din al-Damiri",
  "ur": "حیات الحیوان الکبری، کمال الدین دمیری"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "موسوعة كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري ⁦(ت 808هـ/1405م)⁩ في الحيوان واللفظ، مرتبة على حروف المعجم، يجمع في كل مادة اللغة والخبر والفقه والمثل: مرجع المتحف لأخبار الحيوان في التراث خارج القرآن والحديث المدوّن.",
  "en": "Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri's ⁦(d. 808 AH / 1405 CE)⁩ zoological-lexical encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically, gathering under each animal the lexicon, the reports, the fiqh rulings and the proverbs: the museum's reference for animal lore in the tradition beyond the Qur'an and the written hadith.",
  "ur": "کمال الدین محمد بن موسیٰ دمیری ⁦(متوفی 808ھ/1405ء)⁩ کی حیوانی و لغوی دائرۃ المعارف، حروف تہجی کی ترتیب پر، ہر جانور کے تحت لغت، اخبار، فقہی احکام اور امثال جمع: قرآن اور مدون حدیث سے باہر روایت میں حیوانات کے اخبار کا مرجع۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "primary",
  "type": "book",
  "title": "حياة الحيوان الكبرى",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "الدميري",
    "given": "كمال الدين محمد بن موسى"
   },
   {
    "family": "al-Damiri",
    "given": "Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     1405
    ]
   ]
  },
  "language": "ar",
  "reliability_note": "The standard reference for animal entries in the classical Islamic world. Al-Damiri gathers weak and popular reports beside the sound; the museum cites the work as the record of the tradition's lore, not as proof of the reports' isnad — entries based on it stay draft-tier and are labelled as tradition, not Prophetic text.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); bibliographic card, Nature Explorer wave 6"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}