Abdallah ibn Azzuz

Abdallah ibn Azzuz or Abu Mohammed Abdallah ibn Azzuz al-Kurashi al-Shadhili al-Marrakushi also known as Sidi Balla (died 1789) was a writer from Morocco. He mainly wrote on mysticism,^[1] but also on medicine. Ibn Azzuz's Mahab al-kuzuf wa-nafy al-zulumai fi il al-tibb wa l-tabai wa l-hikma, a collection of therapeutic formulae, was especially well-known.^[2] His work about medicinal plants, Kashf al-rumuz was equally well-known.

Notes

1. see his Tanbih al-tilmidh al-muhtadi
2. L. Leclerc, La Chirurgie d'Abulcasis, Paris 1861, II, pp. 307-8 and H.P.J Renaud, L'Initiation au Maroc, Paris, 1945, pp. 183-4

References

• Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Supplement, Volume 12, p. 124 (retrieved August 3 2010)
• William Charles Brice, An Historical atlas of Islam, BRILL, 1981, p. 382