Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak explained

Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak (ca. 1666  - 1746) was a well-known physician and poet from Fez, Morocco.^[1] He wrote a qasida in honour of the saints in Fes and works on medicine including a commentary on the Nushat of al-Antaki,^[2] a work on smallpox and one on syphilis.^[3] 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.^[4]

References

1. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Supplement, Volume 12, p. 40
2. Nuzhat al-Azhaan Fi Islah al-Abdaan by Dawoud al-Antaki who died ca. AH 1008 (AD 1600). It full title is Tazkirat Ulil Al-Albab wa Al-Jami'a Lil 'Ajab Al-'ujab (Popularly known as Tazkirat Daoud Al-Antaki or Tazkirat. The book was completed by his students, contains 1800 entries, a zail (appendix) was included, and in the margins the book: Al-Nuzha Al-Mubhija fi Tashhiz Al-Azhan wa Ta'dil Al-Amzija by Al-Antaki: Cairo: Matba'at 'Abd Al-Raziq (and many other publishers later) https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tcSLjNceHpcJ:tipdizini.turkiyeklinikleri.com/download_pdf.php%3Fid%3D42045+al-antaki+physician&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9cygh90MAWxB_zO_LTPnBJnQE0f4Tcpr-66c8BTo-EwuSzl_X3ExAQAbveWYY7-KcOfOI1z0j_H1FLSgLK4nnl2zid-rwflIacD5SDP0kxk0lyedvXw5-6-un1Df8ddSB7J98&sig=AHIEtbTmgAvqLerAS80LdexHODgvMD4P5Q (retrieved on August 5, 2010)
3. M. Lakhdar, La Vie Littéraire au Maroc, 1971, p. 187-190
4. Book: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition: Supplement. Brill Archive. 1980. 9004061673. 40.