منهج ابن حمادوش الجزائري في علوم الطب و الصيدلة

الملخص EN

The thirteenth century Hijri (the eighteenth century according to Gregorian calendar) has marked a clear exception to the cultural history of Algeria.

After the scientific decline and weakness period that lasted for virtually two centuries under the Ottoman occupation, during which Algeria had suffered from intellectual doldrums and scientific production downturn, the dawn of the eighteenth century has broken, with its lights of renaissance and thought lanterns, where the country gave birth to many scholars and the ologianswho had played a great role in reviving the cultural and scientific life in innumerable places the country over.

Abd elrrazzaq ben Hamadouche is considered as one of the brightest Algerian scientific figures whose influence deserves the great merit in paving paths to sciences and arts.

For he was a bright mind in that age, he transcended his contemporaries, who were clinging only to translation and pastiche, excelling in the study of medicine, geometry and arithmetic books.

This paper tries to shed light on the scientific career of this learned, doctor, traveler, and writer, digging deep in to the circumstances of his birth and upbringing, investigating his culture by mentioning major masters (Sheikhs) from whom he acquired his knowledge, providing his large writings bibliography and his contributions in the fields of both medicine and pharmacy; the focus of this research, and highlighting his approach to the study of natural sciences.