Agriculture in Arabs heritage

Author

Professor of History of Science and Technology at Menoufia University, member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, member of the National Committee for UNESCO, and member of the Egyptian Scientific Academy.

Abstract

The favor of the Arabs over the nations cannot be denied, they've provided various sciences that Contributed to building the current human civilization. The Arabs were experts in the science of agriculture, and modern science has proven the fact of these information and the importance of the theories mentioned by their scholars in their books. Among the great advantages of the Arabs is that they were the first to divide agriculture into several sciences, although the West began to work with that point of view in the nineteenth century and claimed it for themselves.
This research deals with the history of agriculture among the Arabs since BC, before Islam, then after Islam, and the different eras from the beginning of Islam, the Umayyad and Abbasid era, then agriculture in Andalusia, and its most important scholars and practices.
Agriculture appeared more than 8000 years ago and developed in several places in the Arab world, including the Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, and the Levant. In the plains of these places and in the dry climate, the Arabs began to exploit the soil to produce agricultural crops.
Civilizational effects indicate that the Arab man was adept at agriculture and the foundations he needed, such as plowing and irrigation tools, so he invented the first plow and the plow that paved the way for the emergence of civilization and civilized development in the Arab world.

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