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" al-Ghāfiqī, Abū Jaʿfar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Chipman, Leigh
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English
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1060161
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ALei558
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Chipman, Leigh
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al-Ghāfiqī, Abū Jaʿfar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Chipman, Leigh
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,092 words)
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Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Sayyid al-Ghāfiqī (d. ca. 560/1165), a botanist and pharmacologist of Muslim Spain, was considered by Max Meyerhof to be the greatest pharmocognocist of the Islamic tradition (Mayerhof and Sobhy, 33). His Kitāb fī l-adwiya al-mufrada (“Book of simple drugs”), a huge compilation of botanical and pharmacognostic information, is part of a long and distinguished scholarly tradition. Future studies will no doubt reveal whether al-Ghāfiqī can be considered an “original” author, i.e., the extent to
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Islam.
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ALei558.pdf
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