Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak
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Abu Mohammed Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Adarrak (c. 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]
