Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak

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.