More articles and other resources will be added to the site as they become available.

Articles

Daniel M. Varisco. “Medieval Agricultural Texts from Rasulid Yemen”
G.T. Wrench. “A Kingdom of Agricultural Art in Europe”

Extracts

Description of Aljarafe, by Al-Idrīsi, mid-12th century

Glossaries

A Glossary of Ornamental Plants in the Agricultural and Botanical Treatises from Al-Andalus

Bibliographies

A Bibliography of Medieval Arabic Agronomy and Agriculture
A Bibliography of Terraced Landscapes and Terrace Agriculture

Links to Online Articles

‘Agricoltura e Paesaggio nella Sicilia arabo normanna’. Giuseppe Barbera.
http://www.comune.palermo.it/comune/assessorato_parchi_e_riserve/sun&wind/eventi/ecomediterranea/giuseppe_barbera.pdf

‘Agriculture in Malta in the Late Middle Ages’. Godfrey Wettinger, 1981.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040101063657/http://geocities.com/kanafani2001/proceedingsofhistoryweek1981
/agricultureinmaltainthelatemiddleages.pdf


‘Application of Ancient Agricultural Practices as Seen in Traditional Jewish Texts’.
http://www.mnemotrix.com/adasr/shmuel/research.html

‘Árboles y arbustos de al-Andalus’. Carabaza Bravo, J. M., García Sánchez, E., Hernández Bermejo, J. Esteban and Jiménez Ramírez, A. 2004.
http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/26241/1/ARBOLES%20Y%20ARBUSTOS_JMCarabaza_%20et%20al.pdf

‘Capitols singulars deles llauors que deuras sembrar (Chapters one-by-one of the seeds which you should sow): A late medieval planting guide for the Spanish Levant’. Capuano, T.M. 1988.
http://www.sciencia.cat/biblioteca/documents/Capitols_Capuano.pdf

‘Cépages, raisin et vin en al-Andalus (Xe-XVe siècle).’ Vincent Lagardère, 1997.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/medi_0751-2708_1997_num_16_33_1396

‘Comentarios históricos y botánicos con motivo de un “Glosario” hispano-musulmán de los siglos XI al XII’. Álvarez López, E. 1947.
http://www.rjb.csic.es/jardinbotanico/ficheros/documentos/pdf/anales/1947/Anales_07%281%29_005_175.pdf

‘De l’idéologie aristotélicienne à l’empirisme médiéval. Les sols dans l’agronomie hispano-arabe.’ Lucie Bolens, 1975.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ahess_0395-2649_1975_num_30_5_293664

‘El agua en al-Andalus: teoría y aplicación según la cultura islámica’. Trillo San José, C. 2006.
http://www.ugr.es/~ctrillo/Revista%20Tecnologia%20Agua.pdf

‘El compendio de agricultura atribuido a Ibn Wāfid/al-Nahrāwī: nuevas perspectivas sobre su autoría’. J. R Guzmán Álvarez. 2005.
http://revistas.ucm.es/fll/11303964/articulos/ANQE0505110083A.PDF

‘Fuentes de la Filaha Farisiyya’. Carabaza Bravo, J.M. & García Sánchez, E. 2009.
http://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/article/view/93/86

‘Il Libro della Agricoltura Nabatea nella tradizione agronomica andalusa: The Book of Nabataean Agriculture within the agronomical tradition of al-Andalus’. Travaglia, P. 2009.
http://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/article/view/90/83

‘Кήποποιΐα: garden making and garden culture in the Geoponika’. Rodgers, R.H. 2002
http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/ByzGarden/ByzGarch8.pdf

‘Landholding Patterns in Early Islamic Egypt’, Petra Sijpesteijn 2009.
http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/news/20090304/Sijpesteijn-2009-Landholding-Patterns.pdf

‘La révolution agricole dans l’Espagne musulmane est-elle mesurable?’ Mohammed El Faïz.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/hism_0982-1783_1998_num_13_3_1494

‘Le figuier : histoire, rituel et symbolisme en Afrique du Nord.’ Saïd El Bouzidi, 2002.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/dha_0755-7256_2002_num_28_2_2474

‘Le paysage rural antique au Nord-Ouest de Séville : Campo de Aljarafe.’ Didierjean, F.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/casa_0076-230x_1978_num_14_1_2262

‘Les Morisques, la culture irriguée du blé et le problème de la décadence de l'agriculture espagnole au XVIIe siècle.’ Pierre Ponsot
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/casa_0076-230x_1971_num_7_1_1041

‘Les sciences médicales au temps des califes omeyyades de Cordoue : Al-Zahrâwî et Ibn Wâfid : savants-pharmacologues andalous traduits en Occident chrétien.’ Joëlle Ricordel
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/pharm_0035-2349_1998_num_86_317_4583

‘Le sucre et le doux dans l’alimentation d’al-Andalus.’ Rosa Kuhne Brabant, 1997.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/medi_0751-708_1997_num_16_33_1394

‘Mentalités agraires sémitiques en al-Andalus’. Lucie Bolens-Halimi, 1991.
http://www.persee.fr/web/ouvrages/home/prescript/article/mom_0766-0510_1991_sem_20_1_1783

‘Mûrier et culture de la soie en Andalus au Moyen Age (Xe-XIVe siècles)’. Vincent Lagardère
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/casa_0076-230x_1990_num_26_1_2561

‘Pain quotidien et pains de disette dans l’Espagne musulmane.’ Lucie Bolens, 1980.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ahess_0395-2649_1980_num_35_3_282647

‘Sobre el caballo en la cultura arabe’. Álvarez de Morales, C. & Roldán Castro, F. 1996.
http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/25678/1/El%20caballo%20en%20la%20cultura%20arabe_CAlvarez_FRoldan.pdf

‘Studies on the agronomy of Al-Andalus’. Carabaza Bravo, J.M. & García Sánchez, E. 2009.
http://remmm.revues.org/index6465.html

‘Terres communes et droits d'usage en al-Andalus (Xe-XVe siècles)’. Vincent Lagardère
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/remmm_0997-1327_1996_num_79_1_1734

‘The Agricultural Marker Stars in Yemeni Folklore.’ D. M. Varisco, 1993.
http://thelastlionofthealhambra.com/files/the_agricultural_marker_stars_in_yemeni_folklore.pdf

‘The Islamic Tradition of Agroeconomy: cross-cultural experience, ideas and innovations’. Butzer, K., 1994.
http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/259/244317/The_Islamic_Traditions_of_Agroecology_Crosscultural_Experience,_Ideas_and_Innovations.pdf

‘The Milh al-Malâha of al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar (d. 696/1296): Situating the Ur-Text of the Rasulid Agricultural Corpus’. Daniel Martin Varisco. 2009
http://www.anne.regourd.org/cmy/09/cmy09.02.Texte2.pdf

‘Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses’. García Sánchez, E. 2008
http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/26252/1/Utility%20and%20Aesthetics_EGarcia.pdf

‘Villages et terroirs andalous: Quelques aspects du peuplement médiéval et de l´exploitation agraire dans al-Andalus.’ André Bazzana, 1997.
http://www.ruralia.cz/Andre%20Bazzana%20Villages.pdf

Other Projects & Websites of Interest

ADASR - Ancient Desert Agriculture Systems Revived
http://www.mnemotrix.com/adasr/home.html

EARTH (Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage): the dynamics of non-industrial agriculture - 8,000 years of resilience and innovation
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/projects/earth/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=117

Fihrist: Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online
http://www.fihrist.org.uk

Manuscript@CSIC: collections of digitized manuscripts in Hebrew, Arabic and Aljamiado preserved and stored in the network of CSIC libraries:
http://manuscripta.bibliotecas.csic.es/inicio
includes a complete manuscript of Ibn Luyun at
http://aleph.csic.es/imagenes/mad01/0006_PMSC/html/001349506.html#page/1/mode/2up

Online medieval and renaissance agricultural texts in Catalan:
http://www.sciencia.cat/biblioteca/edicions/15agronomia.htm

Project ALPTER: terraced landscapes of the Alpine arc
http://www.alpter.net/

Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA). American Institute for Yemeni Studies.
http://www.aiys.org/roots-of-agriculture.html

Rural Society in Medieval Islam: the 13th century ‘History of the Fayyum’, the most detailed tax survey to have survived from any region of the medieval Islamic world.
http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/ruralsocietyislam/index.html

Virtual Library of the Mediterranean (including digitized ms. of Ibn Baṣṣāl and other agricultural works)
http://data.manumed.org/index.php