Abd al-Qadir ibn Shaqrun

Ibn Shakrun or Abu Mohammed Abd al-Kadir ibn al-Arabi al-Munabbahi al-Madaghri ibn Shakrun al-Miknasi (died after 1727/8) was a Moroccan physician and poet and contemporary of Moulay Ismael.^[1] He wrote a commentary on a book of grammar, works of poetry and an urjuza (verse composition) on dietetics, hygiene and therapies, Al-Urjuza al-Shaqruniyya fi ilm al-tibb known as simply Shakruniyya, which has remained a well-known work in Morocco for considerable time. He is also the author of a risala titled al-Nafha al-wardiyya fi l'-ushba al-kindiyya on sarsaparilla and the treatment of syphilis. He is not be confused with Abd al-Qadir ibn Shaqrun al-Fasi (died 1801 or 1804), a religious scholar from Fes, who played an active role in the accession of Mulay Slimane as a member of the so-called ahl al-hadith group.^[2]

References

1. William Charles Brice, An Historical atlas of Islam, p. 400
2. Rex S. O'Fahey, Enigmatic saint: Ahmad ibn Idris and the Idrisi tradition, p. 37 (confuses the two)

• M. Lakhdar, La vie intellectuelle au maroc, Rabat 1971, pp. 161–6
• Tazi, Badi (annotations), La médecine arabe au XVIIIe siècle à travers al "Urdjuza Ash-Shakruniyya" (bil. ar-fr)., 1984 (originally presented as the author's thesis (duktūrāh), Jāmiʻat Muhammad al-Khāmis, Rabat, 1980) ISBN 977-01-0295-4