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- After the Koran , The Thousand Nights & a Night, & the
fables of Bidpar , the most popular book in Islam
was The Magamat ( Discourses ) of Abu Muhammad
al - Hariri ( 1054 - 1122 ) of Basra.
- The labors of The Herbalist gave birth to medicine on the
one hand & to scientific botany on the other.
- It is usual to regard the publication of Linnacus' Systema
Naturue (1735) as marking the end of the age of the Herbalists
& the beginning of modern botany.
- Throughout the Middle Ages , an herb & kitchen garden -
often including ornamentals also - was an expected
feature of every monastery.
p. 329
Durant
- Botany, almost forgotten since Theophrastus , revived - the
Moslams of this age. Al-Idrisi wrote a herbal , but stressed
the botanical rather than merely the medicinal interest of 360
plants . Abu'l Abbas of Seville (1216) earned the
surname of al-Nabati , The Botanist , by his studies of
plant life from The Atlantic to the Red Sea . Abu
Muhammad ibn Baitar of Malaga (1190 - 1248) gathered
all Islamic botany into a vast work of extraordinary
erudition which remained the standard botanical authority
till the 16th C , & marked him as the greatest botanist &
pharmacist of the Middle Ages.
- There are 2 types of seals preserved from the cultures of
the ancient Near East.
1) stamps used from the 6th C BC on &
2) cylinders which became popular in Mesopotamia during
the late 4th C. B.C.

- After the Koran , The Thousand Nights & a Night, & the
fables of Bidpar , the most popular book in Islam
was The Magamat ( Discourses ) of Abu Muhammad
al - Hariri ( 1054 - 1122 ) of Basra.
- The labors of The Herbalist gave birth to medicine on the
one hand & to scientific botany on the other.
- It is usual to regard the publication of Linnacus' Systema
Naturue (1735) as marking the end of the age of the Herbalists
& the beginning of modern botany.
- Throughout the Middle Ages , an herb & kitchen garden -
often including ornamentals also - was an expected
feature of every monastery.
p. 329
Durant
- Botany, almost forgotten since Theophrastus , revived - the
Moslams of this age. Al-Idrisi wrote a herbal , but stressed
the botanical rather than merely the medicinal interest of 360
plants . Abu'l Abbas of Seville (1216) earned the
surname of al-Nabati , The Botanist , by his studies of
plant life from The Atlantic to the Red Sea . Abu
Muhammad ibn Baitar of Malaga (1190 - 1248) gathered
all Islamic botany into a vast work of extraordinary
erudition which remained the standard botanical authority
till the 16th C , & marked him as the greatest botanist &
pharmacist of the Middle Ages.
- There are 2 types of seals preserved from the cultures of
the ancient Near East.
1) stamps used from the 6th C BC on &
2) cylinders which became popular in Mesopotamia during
the late 4th C. B.C.