ABSTRACT
Skilled in a variety of sciences including history and geography,
medicine. His writings earned him great fame and made him very
influential in medieval Western Europe.6
His Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada (Treatise on Simple Drugs)
was translated into Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and was frequently
copied. Through its Latin translation by Constantine the African,
under the title Liber de gradibus, it become one of the most
popular pharmacopeia in the Latin West. His '[ibb al-fuqara' wa-
al-masakln (Medicine for the Poor)? represents a literary genre
which was especially popular during the Middle Ages, when it
was practised by different authors, as, for instance, al-Raz18 and
Peter of Spain.9
