At a glance
- Roles
- Physician
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- Review
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Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Hafs Umar ibn Bariq, an Andalusian physician of the fourth century AH. 1
He travelled to Kairouan and attached himself to its physician, Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi Khalid, known as Ibn al-Jazzar. He then returned to al-Andalus with his teacher's book Zad al-Musafir wa Qut al-Hadir (Provision for the Traveller and Sustenance for the Settled), on medicine, treatment and simple drugs. 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)· Abu Abdallah al-Natili· Ahmad al-Damanhuri· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad· Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi
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 Bariq Abu Hafs”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-bariq-abu-hafs/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.