Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak (circa 1666-1746) was a Moroccan physician of Berber descent who served as court physician to the sultan Moulay Ismail in Fez. He wrote medical treatises on smallpox and syphilis and composed a commentary on al-Antaki commentary on Nuzhat, extending the medical knowledge available to practicing physicians in Morocco. His family, the Adarrak lineage, produced several generations of physicians and scholars in Fez.
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Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak (c. 1666 – 1746) was a well-known physician and poet from Fez, Morocco.
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He wrote a qasida in honour of the saints in Fes and works on medicine including a commentary on the Nushat of al-Antaki, a work on smallpox and one on syphilis.
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Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak (1746) was a well-known physician and poet from Fez, Morocco.
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