ابن بيطار -Ibn Al-Bitar

Ibn al-Bitar, nicknamed the vegetarian and the herbalist (593 AH / 1197 AD - 646 AH / 1248 AD), was a Muslim botanist and pharmacist, considered one of the greatest scientists who appeared in the Middle Ages, the scientist of his time in plant sciences and pharmacokinetics, the first pharmacist in drug formulations and the pioneer of chemotherapy. He was born in Andalusia in the city of Malaga, and received his education in Seville at the hands of scholars such as Abu Al-Abbas Ibn Al-Roumieh Al-Nabati and Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Katami. He moved to Morocco after reaching the age of twenty, and visited Marrakesh, Algeria and Tunisia as a researcher in botany, then to Asia Minor, passing through the Levant, and from there to the Hijaz, Gaza, Jerusalem, Beirut and Egypt, then to Greece and the farthest country of the Romans until he settled in Damascus.