ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Wāfid al-Lakhmī () (c. 1008 – 1074), known in

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Europe as , was an Andalusian

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pharmacologist and physician from Toledo. He was the vizier of

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. His main work is ''Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada'' (, translated into Latin as ').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 Ibn al-Wafid was mainly a

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in Toledo, and he used the techniques and methods available in

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to extract at least 520 different kinds of medicines from various

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and

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. His student Ali Ibn al-Lukuh was the author of , a famous botanical dictionary.

References

External links

The Filāḥa Texts Project: Ibn Wāfid
* *''Toledo'', on Muslim Heritage.com, page

(retrieved November 26, 2008) 990s births 1074 deaths 11th-century Al-Andalus people People from Toledo, Spain Alchemists of the medieval Islamic world 11th-century physicians Physicians of Al-Andalus Year of death uncertain Pharmacologists of Al-Andalus 11th-century Arabs Viziers {{spain-med-bio-stub