Abū Jaʿfar al-Ghāfiqī dating history

Abū Jaʿfar al-Ghāfiqī is a member of the following lists: Medieval Arab physicians, 12th-century scientists and Spanish botanists.

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Abū Jaʿfar al-Ghāfiqī (uncertain birth and death dates), was a 12th-century Andalusian Arab botanist, pharmacologist, physician and scholar from Ghafiq near Cordoba in the southern Iberian peninsula called al-Andalus, a region of mixed cultures, religions, and languages. He was responsible for the collating and creating of 'Kitāb fī l-adwiya al-mufrada' (“Book of simple drugs”), a remarkable compendium of some 400 hand-drawn and coloured images of plants and animals, popularly known as the “Herbal of al-Ghafiqi". The Herbal draws on ancient Greek sources like Dioscorides and Galen and more than thirty other works from India and the Hellenistic and Islamic worlds.