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The Arab Agricultural Revolution [a] was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries). The agronomic literature of the time, with major books by Ibn Bassal and Ibn al-'Awwam , demonstrates the extensive diffusion of useful plants to Medieval Spain ( al-Andalus ), and the growth in ...
As is true of the world as a whole, agriculture dominated the economy until the modern period, with livestock grazing playing a particularly large role in the Arab world. Significant trade routes included the Silk Road, the spice trade, and the trade in gold, salt, slaves and luxury goods including ivory and feathers out of sub-Saharan Africa.
Fellahin children harvesting crops in Egypt. A fellah (Arabic: فَلَّاح fallāḥ; feminine فَلَّاحَة fallāḥa; plural fellaheen or fellahin, فلاحين, fallāḥīn) is a local peasant, usually a farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
Ibn Bassal (Arabic: ابن بصال) [1] was an 11th-century Andalusian Arab [2] botanist and agronomist in Toledo and Seville, Spain who wrote about horticulture and arboriculture. He is best known for his book on agronomy , the Dīwān al-filāha (An Anthology of Husbandry).
Jericho, c. 1900. Jericho, near the Jordan River in Palestine, is one of the oldest agricultural settlements in the world dating to 8,000 BCE or earlier. Eight founder crops were grown at that time or shortly thereafter: three cereals (Einkorn and emmer wheat and barley); four pulses (lentils, peas, chickpeas, and bitter vetch), and flax [1] The fig tree may have been domesticated even earlier ...
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Malik al-Murri al-Tighnari al-Gharnati [1] [2] was born into an Arab family [1] of Banu Murra, [3] in a small, disappeared village of Tignar, [note 1] located between the existing Albolote and Maracena, [4] in the province of Granada, Al-Andalus (modern day Spain). [5]
After the Development of Agriculture; Agrarian society; Agricultural policy of Fascist Italy; Agriculture in Mesopotamia; Ancient Egyptian agriculture; Agriculture in ancient Greece; Andén; Arab Agricultural Revolution; Aratrum terrae; Ard (plough) Åsetesrett
Agricultural revolution may refer to: First Agricultural Revolution (circa 10,000 BC), the prehistoric transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture (also known as the Neolithic Revolution) Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th century), The spread of new crops and advanced techniques in the Muslim world