Ibn al-Baytar

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Ibn al-Baytar was a prominent 13th-century Andalusian physician and botanist renowned for his influential works on pharmacology and medicinal plants in the Islamic Golden Age.

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instanceOf Andalusian scholar
botanist
medieval scientist
pharmacologist
physician
alsoKnownAs Ibn al-Baitar
linked to: Ibn al-Bayṭār

Ibn al-Bayṭār
birthPlace Málaga
al-Andalus
linked to: Andalusia
citizenship al-Andalus
linked to: Andalusia
deathPlace Ayyubid Sultanate
linked to: Ayyubid dynasty

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

al-Razi
linked to: Al-Razi (Rhazes)
knownFor critical evaluation of earlier pharmacological literature
describing hundreds of new simples
systematic compilation of medicinal plants
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
legacy influential source for later Latin and European herbals
major reference in pharmacology for centuries in the Islamic world
mainSubject herbal medicine
medicinal plants
pharmacognosy
methodology empirical observation of plants and drugs
movement Islamic Golden Age
notableWork Al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aghdhiya
Al-Mughni fi al-Adwiya al-Mufrada
Kitab al-Jami fi al-Adwiya al-Mufrada
Kitab al-Mughni fi al-Adwiya al-Mufrada
numberOfDescribedDrugs more than 1400
positionHeld chief herbalist of the Ayyubid court in Cairo
timePeriod 13th century
travelledTo Asia Minor
Egypt
North Africa
Syria
workFocus classification of simples by therapeutic properties
comparison of Greek and Islamic pharmacological sources

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Islamic medicine keyFigure Ibn al-Baytar