Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak


Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak was a well-known physician and poet from Fez, Morocco. He wrote a qasida in honour of the saints in Fes and works on medicine including a commentary on the Nushat of al-Antaki, a work on small-pox and one on syphilis. Adarrak also worked as a court-physician for Moulay Ismail.
He was a descendant of a Berber family which ancestor left the Sous and settled at Fes in the 17th century. The Adarrak family produced many physicians and scientists.