Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- PhysicianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Andarshi al-Balansi, a jurist and physician. He died in Tunis in 674 AH. He wrote a poem on medicine and a versified work on 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 , p.413-414
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Andarshi al-Balansi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-ibn-ahmad-al-andarshi-al-balansi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.