Ibn al-Wafid
Deceased Person
0997 – 1074
Who was Ibn al-Wafid?
Ali Ibn al-Husain Ibn al-Wafid, known in Latin Europe as Abenguefit, was a pharmacologist and physician from Toledo. He was the vizier of Al-Mamun of Toledo. His main work is Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada and it was printed in Latin more than fifty times, appearing as De Medicinis universalibus et particularibus.
Ibn al-Wafid was mainly a pharmacist in Toledo, and he used the techniques and methods available in alchemy to extract at least 520 different kinds of medicines from various plants and herbs.
His student Ali Ibn al-Lukuh was the author of ʿUmdat al-Ṭabīb fī Maʿrifat al-Nabāt li kulli Labīb, a famous botanical dictionary.
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