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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 ...
A recipe for "fritware" dating to c. 1300 AD written by Abu’l Qasim reports that the ratio of quartz to "frit-glass" to white clay is 10:1:1. [90] This type of pottery has also been referred to as "stonepaste" and "faience" among other names. [91] A 9th-century corpus of "proto-stonepaste" from Baghdad has "relict glass fragments" in its ...
Pre-Islamic Arabia is the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension in the Syrian Desert before the rise of Islam.This is consistent with how contemporaries used the term Arabia or where they said Arabs lived, which was not limited to the peninsula.
ISBN 978-0-7486-0847-8., chapter 4, The Gradeur of the Umayyad Caliphate; section 2: The economic basis. Mohammed A. Bamyeh (1999). The social origins of Islam: mind, economy, discourse. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3263-3. Chapter 2: Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought; covers the early socioeconomic history of the Arabian Peninsula
[1] Athanasius II Baldoyo Syriac Orthodox historian and Patriarch of Antioch. [2] Ammar al-Basri 9th-century East Syrian theologian and apologist. [3] Anthony of Tagrit 9th-century West Syrian Syriac theologian and Rhetorician. [4] Abdisho bar Berika (died 1318) Syriac writer and bishop. [5]
The Arab geographer Ibn Hawqal visited Spain and the Maghreb between 947 and 951 A.D. [5] According to the account in his Kitab Surat al-Ard, completed around 988 AD, Sijilmasa grew in economic power due to shifting trade routes.
The Aghlabid army was composed of two main elements. The first was the jund, or Arab troops descended from the Arab tribesmen who had participated in the early Muslim conquests of North Africa. [15] The other component of the army was recruited from slaves, put in place partly to counterbalance to the power of the jund.
Arab salad: Arab world: Combines many different vegetables and spices, and often served as part of a mezze: Baba ghanoush: Levant: Also eggplant salad is a dish of cooked eggplant mixed with tahina, olive oil and various seasonings. [1] [2] Cucumber and yogurt salad: Arab world: Is made of salted strained yogurt (usually from sheep or goat milk ...