Date Palm Production in Rasulid Yemen

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86893-227-0
Verlag: EB-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 26 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varisco, Daniel Martin

Über Autor(innen)

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.