Title: la botaniste de Damas
Description: During the 13th century scientists as doctors in medecine, botanists  pharmacologists came  in Middle east from Spain , Maghreb and Africa and all the most cities of the muslim world to study or write or teach in Egypt or in Syria during the last years of Ayyoubid' s epoch.  Ibn Baytar is an already  very well   known botanist and  pharmacologist.Leaving Spain and Seville  as  Christians are  reconquering  the muslim Andalus he   became soon    chief of the doctors in the  bimaristan of Cairo.   In 1240 he arrives  in Syria and in Damascus  to write his main  book his Treatise of medicinal plants and foods. Living in a family of   scientists in Damascus he met in this house all of the most famous scientists of the muslim world but also  richs merchants, travellers, famous artists, brilliants poets and musicians as also  famous cookers... But  Middle east  as after and as always there is no peace. All  these scientists are living and working  but there are  in danger as there works and studies... The crusaders are  threatening  all the country and disputing Al Qods (Jerusalem) while  the Mongols 's army    is  devastating cities, viilages  and  countries at  the borders... The precious manuscript will escape all the dangers with the help of  the syrian family and  a clever ambassador of  the Sudan realm...In the 19e century , a french orientalist but also doctor in the french army of the conquest of Algeria will  discover a ancient copy and give the only translation available  of this essential work...All the members of the family will escape the Mongols moving to Venise...
Subjects: scientists in the medieval arab world
Places: middle east and Maghreb
People: Ibn Baytar the most famous arab pharmacologist and botanist (13e century, end of Ayyoubid period, endof the crusaders period in Middle east, arrival of the Mongols in Iraks
Time periods: Damascus1240