ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Wāfid al-Lakhmī (; c. 1008 – 1074), known in Latin Europe as , was an Andalusian Arab pharmacologist and physician from Toledo. He was the vizier of Al-Mamun of Toledo. His main work is (), translated into Latin as .Emilia Calvo, "Ibn Wafid", in: The Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non Western Cultures, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1997, p. 438
Ibn al-Wafid was mainly a pharmacist in Toledo, and he used the techniques and methods available in alchemy to extract at least 520 different kinds of medicines from various plants and herbs.
One of his students was Ibn al-Lūnquh.
Works Kitab al-Adwiyah al-Mufrada (On Simple Drugs) Kitab al-Wisād fī l-ṭibb (The Pillow Book on Medicine) Mujarrabāt fī l-ṭibb (Experiences in Medicine) Tadqīq al-naẓar fī ʿilal ḥāssat al-baṣar (Fine Examination of the Diseases Affecting the Sense of Sight) Kitab al-Mughīth (The Book of the Helper)
See also Serapion the Younger
References
External links The Filāḥa Texts Project: Ibn Wāfid
Toledo, on Muslim Heritage.com, page 6 (retrieved November 26, 2008)