Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed ibn Ibrahim al-Wazir al-Ghassani al-Andalusi () (1548–1610) was a physician at the Saadian court. He studied medicine with his father. He lived in

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and Fez and was of

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descent. It is probable that he was the author of ''Hadiqat al-azhar fi mahiyyat al-ushb wa-l-aqqar'' (''Garden of Flowers in the Explanation of the Character of Herbs and Drugs''), a treatise on pharmacology and botany. A hospital in Fez was named after him. He was sent by the Moroccan Sultan Mulay Zaidan as an envoy to the

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. He was followed in this role by

Al-Hajari Ahmad ibn Qāsim Al-Hajarī () also known as Al-Hajari, Afoukay, Chihab, Afokai () or Afoqai () (c.1570, Andalusia–c.1640, Tunis), was a Muslim Morisco who worked as a translator in Morocco during the reigns of the Saadi sultans, Ahmad al-Mansu ...

, and later

Yusuf Biscaino Yusuf Biscaino, also Ahmad b. Abd Allah al-Hayti al-Maruni (), was a Morisco in the service of the Moroccan Sultan Mulay Zidan. He was sent as an ambassador to the Low Countries in 1610-11. He met with Prince Maurice of Nassau who inquired to him ...

.''Romania Arabica'' by Gerard Wiegers p.410
/ref> Muhammad Alguazir was also the author of an anti-Christian polemical work, ''Apología contra los artículos de la ley Cristiana'', written at the order of Mulay Zaidan.''Poetry Islamic literature in Spanish and Aljamiado'' by G.A. Wiegers p.193''ff''
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1548 births 1610 deaths 16th-century physicians 17th-century Moroccan physicians Ambassadors of Morocco to the Netherlands 16th-century Moroccan writers People from Fez, Morocco People from Marrakesh Arab chemists 16th-century Moroccan people {{Morocco-writer-stub