A full English translation is rare (and costly). However, an abridged version focusing on the medical and superstitious elements exists under titles like Al-Damiri’s Hayat al-Hayawan: A Zoological Lexicon .

"Hayat al-Hayawan al-Kubra" by Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri is an Arabic zoological encyclopedia from the 8th century. SifatuSafwa

Al-Damīrī was a polymath. According to his own introduction, he wrote Hayatul Hayawan because he noticed that earlier works on animals (like those by al-Jāḥiẓ, author of Kitāb al-Ḥayawān ) were either too encyclopedic, disorganized, or lacked religious-legal utility. He aimed to create a systematic zoological manual that served three purposes: