
Date Palm Production in Rasulid Yemen
Daniel Martin Varisco(Author)
EB-Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2017
Book
Pamphlet
26 pages
978-3-86893-227-0 (ISBN)
Description
There is a rich corpus of texts about agriculture during the Rasulid era (13th-15th centuries CE) in Yemen. One of the most important crops at the time was the date palm (nakhl), which was grown in the Tihama coastal region, Najran and ?a?ramawt. This essay provides a translation and analysis of the section on date palms in the 13th century agricultural treatise Mil? al-mala?a fi ma'rifat al-fila?a, written by the Rasulid sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf 'Umar. Details are provided on the varieties of dates, their cultivation, pollination and protection from insects and diseases.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-86893-227-0 (9783868932270)
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Person
Daniel Martin Varisco is President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. He has taught at Hofstra University in New York and Qatar University. He has worked in Yemen since 1978 as an anthropologist, development consultant and historian. This essay is part of a long-term research project on agriculture during the Rasulid era.