Ibn al-Baytar, Botanist and pharmacist

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ScholarBotanist and pharmacist

Ibn al-Baytarابن البيطار

Approximate dateDamascus

A botanist from Malaga whose book of simple medicines listed some 1,400 plants and drugs.

He collected plants across North Africa, Anatolia and Syria and served the Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil as chief herbalist in Cairo. His great compendium of simple drugs joins Greek knowledge with his own field observations.

What grew out of it?

His work was a standard pharmacy reference in the Muslim world for centuries.

Who else is linked?

DamascusAl-KamilAyyubids

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