[Sca-cooks] Arabic books of husbandry
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galefridus at optimum.net
Tue Jun 7 12:43:36 PDT 2011
This site looks truly excellent -- I'm looking forward to exploring it more deeply!
-- Galefridus
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> From: emilio szabo
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> http://filaha.org/
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> E.
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> From the intro site:
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> Welcome to the Fil??a Texts Project
> The purpose of the Fil??a Texts Project is to publicise and
> elucidate the
> written works collectively known as the Kutub al-Fil??a or
> ?Books of Husbandry?
> compiled by Arab, especially Andalusi, agronomists mainly
> between the 10th and
> 14th centuries (see Authors & Works). These systematic and
> detailed manuals of
> agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry have been sadly
> neglected and
> remain largely unknown in the Anglophone world - apart from
> some of the Yemeni
> works they have never been translated into English. They not
> only provide
> primary source material for the understanding of what has been
> called the
> ?Islamic Green Revolution? but constitute a rich body of
> knowledge concerning a
> traditional system of husbandry which is as valid today as it
> was a thousand
> years ago and has much relevance to future sustainable
> agriculture. See
> Introduction.
>
> The Fil??a texts are preserved in some 240 manuscripts
> scattered in libraries
> and institutions in 40 different cities, mainly in Europe, the
> Middle East and
> North Africa. See Map of Holding Institutions.
>
> The objectives of the Fil??a Texts Project are:
>
> (...)
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