Ibn al-Wafid

Ali Ibn al-Husain Ibn al-Wafid al-Lakhmi (c. 997 – 1074), known in Latin Europe as Abenguefith, was an Arab[1] pharmacologist and physician from Toledo. He was the vizier of Al-Mamun of Toledo. His main work is Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada (كتاب الأدوية المفردة, translated into Latin as De medicamentis simplicibus).[2]

Ibn al-Wafid ابن الوافد
Born	December 997 Toledo, Spain, now Province of Toledo, Spain
Died	1074 (aged 77)
Occupation	Pharmacologist, Physician, Vizir of Al-Mamun of Toledo
Notable works	Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada كتاب الأدوية المفردة

Ibn al-Wafid was mainly a pharmacist in Toledo, and he used the techniques and methods available in alchemy to extract at least 520 different kinds of medicines from various plants and herbs.

His student Ali Ibn al-Lukuh was the author of ʿUmdat al-Ṭabīb fī Maʿrifat al-Nabāt li kulli Labīb, a famous botanical dictionary.

References

Muñoz, Fernando (1996). Plantas medicinales y aromáticas: estudio, cultivo y procesado (in Spanish). Mundi-Prensa Libros. ISBN 9788471146243.
Emilia Calvo, "Ibn Wafid", in: The Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non Western Cultures, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1997, p. 438

External links

The Filāḥa Texts Project: Ibn Wāfid
Vernet, J. (2008) [1970-80]. "Ibn Wāfid, Abū Al-Mutarrif ͑Abd Alrahman". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com.
Toledo, on Muslim Heritage.com, page 6 (retrieved November 26, 2008)

Medicine in the medieval Islamic world

Physicians

7th century	Al-Harith ibn Kalada and his son Abu Hafsa Yazid Bukhtishu Masarjawaih Ibn Abi Ramtha al-Tamimi Rufaida Al-Aslamia Ibn Uthal Zaynab al-Awadiya
8th century	Bukhtishu family Ja'far al-Sadiq
9th century	Ali al-Ridha Albubather Bukhtishu family Jabril ibn Bukhtishu Jabir ibn Hayyan Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his son Yusuf Al-Khuri Yahya ibn Sarafyun Al-Kindi Masawaiyh Shapur ibn Sahl al-Tabari Al-Ruhawi Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu Salmawaih ibn Bunan
10th century	Qusta ibn Luqa Abu ul-Ala Shirazi Abul Hasan al-Tabari Al-Natili Qumri Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Isaac Israeli ben Solomon al-Majusi al-Masihi Muvaffak al-Razi Ibn Juljul al-Jabali Al-Tamimi, the physician al-Zahrawi Ibn al-Jazzar Al-Kashkari Ibn Abi al-Ashʿath Ibn al-Batriq Ibrahim ibn Baks Abu al-Qasim Muqane'i Abu Bakr Bokhari Aayon Ibn Aayon
11th century	Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani Ibn al-Haytham Al-Biruni Ali ibn Ridwan Avicenna Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran Ibn al-Wafid Ammar al-Mawsili Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu Ibn Butlan al-Kirmani Ibn al-Kattani Ibn Jazla Masawaih al-Mardini al-Ilaqi Ibn Al-Thahabi Ibn Abi Sadiq Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal Ibn Hindu Al-Badi' al-Asturlabi
12th century	Avempace Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar Ahmad ibn Farrokh Ibn Hubal Zayn al-Din Gorgani Maimonides Serapion the Younger Ibn Zuhr Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili al-Turjali Averroes Ibn Tufail Al-Ghafiqi Ibn Abi al-Hakam Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī Al-Samawal al-Maghribi Ibn al-Tilmidh Ibn Jumay‘
13th century	Ibn al-Baitar Ibn Tumlus Sa'ad al-Dawla Al-Shahrazuri Rashidun al-Suri As-Suwaydi Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon Da'ud Abu al-Fadl Al-Dakhwar Ibn Abi Usaibia Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta Ibn al‐Raqqam Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi Ibn al-Nafis Zakariya al-Qazwini Najib ad-Din-e-Samarqandi Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi Ibn al-Quff
14th century	Ibn al-Akfani Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli Al-Nagawri Aqsara'i Zayn-e-Attar Mansur ibn Ilyas Jaghmini Mas‘ud ibn Muhammad Sijzi Najm al-Din al-Shirazi Nakhshabi al-Kazaruni al-Kutubi Ibn Shuayb Ibn al-Khatib Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
15th century	Abu Sa'id al-Afif Muhammad Ali Astarabadi Husayni Isfahani Burhan-ud-din Kermani Sabuncuoglu Sherefeddin al-Harawi Nurbakhshi Shaykh Muhammad ibn Thaleb
16th century	Hakim-e-Gilani Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf Dawud al-Antaki Sultan Ali Khorasani
17th century	Abd El Razzaq Al-Jazaïri

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Alchemy and chemistry in the medieval Islamic world

Alchemists

8th century	pseudo-Khālid ibn Yazīd pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana
9th century	Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
10th century	Abū Bakr al-Rāzī Ibn Umayl Ibn Waḥshiyya pseudo-Maslama al-Majrīṭī Abū Manṣūr al-Muwaffaq
11th century	pseudo-Avicenna al-Khawārizmī al-Kāthī al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs Aḥmad ibn ʿImād al-Dīn Ibn al-Wāfid (pharmacist)
12th century	al-Ṭughrāʾī Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs Al-Nabarawi Artephius
13th century	al-ʿIrāqī Ibn al-Bayṭār (pharmacist) Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Nabātī (pharmacist) Ḥasan al-Rammāḥ (engineer)
14th century	al-Jildakī Ibn al-Rassām Abū l-Ashbā ibn Tammām

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