abenzoar

Updated: May 5, 2025

These schools produced, in the twelfth century, several distinguished men, among the most celebrated of whom were the learned Abenzoar and the famous Averroes. The former, equally profound in medicine, pharmacy, and surgery, lived, it is said, to the age of one hundred and thirty-five years. Some estimable works which he produced are still extant.

Florian - History of the Moors of Spain

Celebrated schools of geometry, astronomy, chymistry, and medicine were established there schools which, a century afterward, produced such men as Averroes and Abenzoar.

Florian - History of the Moors of Spain