Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak

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Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak (ca. 1666 – 1746) was a well-known physician and poet from Fez, Morocco.[1] He wrote a qasida in honour of the saints in Fes and works on medicine including a commentary on the Nushat of al-Antaki,[2] a work on smallpox and one on syphilis.[3] Adarrak also worked as a court physician for Moulay Ismail.

He was a descendant of a Berber family which ancestor left the Sous and settled at Fes in the 17th century. The Adarrak family produced many physicians and scientists.[4]

References

  1. ^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Supplement, Volume 12, p. 40
  2. ^ Nuzhat al-Azhaan Fi Islah al-Abdaan by Dawoud al-Antaki who died ca. AH 1008 (AD 1600). It full title is Tazkirat Ulil Al-Albab wa Al-Jami'a Lil 'Ajab Al-'ujab (Popularly known as Tazkirat Daoud Al-Antaki or Tazkirat. The book was completed by his students, contains 1800 entries, a zail (appendix) was included, and in the margins the book: Al-Nuzha Al-Mubhija fi Tashhiz Al-Azhan wa Ta'dil Al-Amzija by Al-Antaki: Cairo: Matba'at 'Abd Al-Raziq (and many other publishers later) [1] (retrieved on August 5, 2010)
  3. ^ M. Lakhdar, La Vie Littéraire au Maroc, 1971, p. 187-190
  4. ^ The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition: Supplement. Brill Archive. 1980. p. 40. ISBN 9004061673.


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