Agricultural innovation in the early Islamic world: the diffusion of crops and farming techniques, 700 - 1100
In: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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In: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 309-316
ISSN: 2052-465X
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 309-316
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 309
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: The journal of economic history, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 729-731
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 207-209
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 8-35
ISSN: 1471-6372
The rapid spread of Islam into three continents in the seventh and eighth centuries was followed by the diffusion of an equally remarkable but less well documented agricultural revolution. Originating mainly in India, where heat, moisture and available crops all favored its development and where it had been practiced for some centuries before the rise of Islam, the new agriculture was carried by the Arabs or those they conquered into lands which, because they were colder and drier, were much less hospitable to it and where it could be introduced only with difficulty. It appeared first in the eastern reaches of the early-Islamic world—in parts of Persia, Mesopotamia and perhaps Arabia Felix—which had close contacts with India and where a few components of the revolution were already in place in the century before the rise of Islam. By the end of the eleventh century it had been transmitted across the length and breadth of the Islamic world and had altered, often radically, the economies of many regions: Transoxania, Persia, Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, the Maghrib, Spain, Sicily, the savannah lands on either side of the Sahara, parts of West Africa and the coastlands of East Africa. It had very far-reaching consequences, affecting not only agricultural production and incomes but also population levels, urban growth, the distribution of the labor force, linked industries, cooking and diet, clothing, and other spheres of life too numerous and too elusive to be investigated here.
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In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 217
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: African economic history, Heft 13, S. 227
ISSN: 2163-9108
In: The economic history review, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 1-34
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 337-356
ISSN: 2158-9100