At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Ibn al-Battar, the brilliant physician and herbalist, author of the Kitab al-Mufradat on simples; the knowledge of plants, their properties, benefits and habitats ended with him. He was in the service of al-Malik al-Kamil then his son al-Salih, and was chief in Egypt; he died at Damascus in Sha'ban. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 242
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Baytar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-battar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.