IslHornAfr

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Ibn al-Bayṭār, Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad al-Dīn al-Mālaqī ابن البيطار، أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد الدين المالقي

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Botanist and pharmacologist born in Malaga; he studied in Seville and around 617/1220 he emigrated to the East, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt where he was appointed by the Ayyūbid ruler as head of the herbalists. His most famous works are al-Ǧāmiʻ li-mufradāt al-adwiya wa-l-aġḏiya (printed in Cairo Būlāq, 1291/1874 and translated by Lucien Leclerc, Paris : Bibliothèque Nationale, 1877-1883) and al-Muġnīfī al-aḍwiya al-mufrada.

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