Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak
Deceased Person
1666 – 1746
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Who was Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak?
Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak was a well-known physician and poet from Fes, Morocco. He wrote a qasida in honour of the saints in Fas and works on medicine o.a. a commentary on the Nushat of al-Antaki, a work on small-pox and one on syphilis. Adarrak also worked as a court-physician for Moulay Ismael.
He was a descendant of a Berber family which left southern Morocco for Fes in the 17th century. The Adarrak family produced many physicians and scientists.
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