At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Scientist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Agriculture and botanyMedicine
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Malaqi, known as Ibn al-Bitar. A scholar of plants, drugs and medicine from Málaga in al-Andalus. He died in 646 AH (1248 CE). 1
People and things also explored
The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)· The Nilometer· Shajar (trees and their rulings in sale, pre-emption, orchard contracts and the sacred enclosure)· Shirb (the right to water: public and owned waters, distribution, cleaning of canals, and sale of water rights)· Fertilizer (simad) and its rulings
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Bitar Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-bitar-abu-muhammad-abd-allah-ibn-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.