Ibn al-Bayṭār

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Ibn al-Bayṭār was a 13th-century Andalusian Arab botanist, pharmacist, and physician renowned for his comprehensive works on medicinal plants and pharmacology.

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instanceOf Andalusian scholar
Arab scientist
author
botanist
pharmacist
physician
activity collecting and studying medicinal plants
alsoKnownAs Ibn al-Baytar
al-Mālaqī
birthDate c. 1197
birthPlace Málaga
al-Andalus
linked to: Al-Andalus

present-day Spain
century 13th century
deathDate 1248
deathPlace Ayyubid Sultanate
linked to: Ayyubid dynasty

Damascus
employer Ayyubid court in Damascus
ethnicGroup Arab
linked to: Arabs
fieldOfWork botany
materia medica
medicine
pharmacology
fullName Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī
influenced later Islamic pharmacologists
medieval European pharmacology
influencedBy Dioscorides
Galen
Ibn Sīnā
linked to: Avicenna

al-Rāzī
linked to: Al-Razi (Rhazes)
knownFor comprehensive works on medicinal plants
describing hundreds of medicinal substances
systematic pharmacological encyclopedia
languageOfWork Arabic
legacy major authority in medieval pharmacology
name Ibn al-Bayṭār
notableWork Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aghdhiya
Kitāb al-Mughnī fī al-adwiya al-mufrada
al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aghdhiya
numberOfSubstancesDescribedInAl-Jami more than 1400
occupation court physician
region al-Andalus
linked to: Al-Andalus
sourcesUsed Greek medical literature
earlier Arabic medical authors
titleOfWorkTranslated Compendium on Simple Medicaments and Foods
The Sufficient Book on Simple Drugs
traveledTo Asia Minor
Egypt
North Africa
Syria

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Ibn al-Baytar alsoKnownAs Ibn al-Baitar
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Ibn al-Baytar name Ibn al-Bayṭār
Ibn al-Baytar name Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Ibn al-Bayṭār
linked to: Ibn al-Bayṭār
Ibn al-Bayṭār name Ibn al-Bayṭār