Ibn al-Baitar · 1197–1248

Wednesday, January 1, 1197 – December 31, 1248 All day

Diyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, commonly known as Ibn al-Bayṭār was an Andalusian Arab physician, botanist, pharmacist and scientist. His main contribution was to systematically record the additions made by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages, which added between 300 and 400 types of medicine to the one thousand previously known since antiquity. He was a student of Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati. 1197 – 1248; died at about 50. Alive at the same time as Genghis Khan, Thomas Aquinas, Rumi, Francis of Assisi, and Fibonacci. Wiki link

Ibn al-Baitar · 1197–1248