Who is Abdul malik asmai and what did he invent?

Answer 1

Al-Asmai was the first scientist from Islam to make contributions to the fields of zoology, botany, and Animal Husbandry. His full name is Abdul Malik Ibn al-Quraib al-Asmai and he was born in Basra, in what is modern day Iraq. He was born there in 740, and he died there as well in 828. He was a disciple of Amr ibn al'ala and was a tutor to Harun Rashid's son in his later days.

His main works were on the horse (Kitab al-Khail) and the camel (Kitab al-Ibil), which is not surprising since most early arabic zoology (seventh and eigth century) was centered on these two animals. In addition to his work in zoology, he also did classification of plants. Also, he wrote an indepth book on human anatomy, called the Kitab Khalq al-Insan (on the making of man). This book in particular stands out, since it showed great knowledge of the subject for the time. It also showed that he had an expertise in dissections.

The final of the three sciences listed as his contributions, Animal Husbandry, I feel needs explanation. It is the science of breeding and raising livestock and animals. His contributions in this field were to the raising and breeding of camels and horses, which as formentioned are very important to the Arabic world at the time.

There isn't a great deal of information on his work relevance to modern theory, however his book on anatomy was correct for the most part. There were only a few misconceptions that he came to in his writings. As for his works on animals, there is little information, but there is no mention of him being completly wrong on any of his works.

There were no pictures that were of Al-Asmai or his work.