Ibn al-Baytar
Diyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, commonly known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (Arabic: ابن البيطار) (1197–1248 AD) was an Andalusian Arab physician, botanist, pharmacist and scientist. His main contribution was to systematically record the additions made by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages, which added between 300 and 400 types of medicine to the one thousand previously known since antiquity. He was a student of Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati.
Ibn al-Bayṭār | |
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Statue of Ibn al-Bayṭār in Benalmádena Costa, Spain | |
| Born | 1197 Málaga, Andalusia, Almohad Caliphate, now Province of Málaga, Spain |
| Died | 1248 (aged 51) Damascus, Ayyubid dynasty, now Syria |
| Known for | Scientific classification Oncology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botanist, Scientist, Pharmacist, Physician |
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