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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