Abu Dscha Ahmfar Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghafiqi
Abu Dschaʿfar Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghafiqi ( Arabic أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد الغافقي, DMG Abū Ǧaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ġāfiqī ; d. 1166) was an Andalusian doctor and botanist in the 12th century. He is occasionally confused with the ophthalmologist Muhammad al-Ghafiqi .
Works
He is known for the medical-botanical encyclopedia Kitāb al-adwiya wa-l-mufradāt (Book of Simple Medicines), which were compiled from Arabic pharmacological works . Manuscripts of this work have been preserved in Istanbul , Cairo , Rabat and Oxford . The author cites his sources carefully. The works that he has taken have included those of Dioscorides , Galen , Paul of Aegina , Masaryawayh , Bajisthu (one of the doctors of Harun ar-Rashid), Hunayn ibn Ishaq , al-Kindi , Abu Hanifa ad-Dinawari , ar- Razi , Ibn al-Yazzar , Ibn Yulyul , Ibn Samyun and Ibn Wafid ; the most important models, however, are the medical works of Dioscurides and Galen.
Two other works are ascribed to Al-Ghafiqi, the Libro de las fiebres y de los tumores (Book of fevers and tumors) and the Libro del rechazo de todos los daños que afectan al cuerpo (Book of the suppression of all damage that affects the body ). He had a great influence on later medicine. Ibn al-Baytar, for example, simply copied large parts of al-Ghafiqi in his Gran colección de alimentos y medicamentos simples (Great Collection of Food and Simple Medicines).
The work of al-Ghafiqi was also examined by Ibn Abi Usaybia . Medical pharmacology in al-Andalus is summarized in the work of al-Ghafiqi, who, mediated through the works of the Jewish scholars Chasdai ibn Schaprut and Ibn Buqlaris, processes the works of Dioscurides and Galen through to those of Hunain ibn Ishaq. Meyerhof, who translated part of the work, writes that al-Ghafiqi is " el más grande de los sabios en Farmacología y Botánica entre los médicos de la Edad Media islámica " (German: "the greatest of the scholars in pharmacology and botany among the physicians of the Islamic Middle Ages ”).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockelmann GAL SI: 891; Ullmann: Medicine in Islam: 211, 276f.
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| SURNAME | Abu Dscha Ahmfar Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghafiqi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghāfiqī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī; Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Gāfiqī; Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghāfikī; Abu Ýaʻfar al-Gafiqi; أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد الغافقي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Andalusian doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th Century |