L'Agronomie de la Mesopotamie Antique: Analyse du "Livre de l'Agriculture Nabateenne" de Qutama (Studies in the History & Culture of the ... History and Culture of the Ancient Near East) - Hardcover

El Fa�z, Mohammed

9789004101999: L'Agronomie de la Mesopotamie Antique: Analyse du

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004101993 ISBN 13: 9789004101999

Publisher: Brill, 1995

This book deals with the agronomy of ancient Mesopotamia. It relies on the original, yet hardly known, agronomic encyclopaedia: The "Book of Nabatean Agriculture" written by Qutama (end of Antiquity). The three parts of the book analyze the origin of the Mesopotamian school of agriculture and its economic and agro-technical conceptions. The material is a considerable contribution to the history of the Mesopotamian agriculture. It also contains the knowledge which was basic to the establishment of the agronomic culture of Islam. Besides, the historians of agronomy could, thanks to this new material, relate the Mesopotamian contribution to the development of the science of agriculture.

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Review:

'Au total, l'Agriculture nabat�ene, apr�s avoir �t� longtemps m�pris�, se r�v�le comme un ouvrage d'importance majeure qui apporte des informations pr�cises, vari�es non seulement sur les techniques agricoles mais sur les principaux aspects des techniques agraires. L'ouvrage de M. El Fa�z est � la hauteur de ce monument. Il reste � esp�rer que l'Agriculture nabat�enne trouve un traducteur. Il ne fait pas de doute qu'il m�rite pleinement.'
Georges Tate, Histoire Rurale, 1996.

Synopsis:

This text deals with the agronomy of ancient Mesopotamia. It is based on the original, but little known, agronomic encyclopaedia: the "Book of Nabatean Agriculture" by Qutama. The text is divided into three parts and analyzes the origin of the Mesopotamian school of agriculture and its economic and agro-technical conceptions. It also describes the knowledge which was basic to the establishment of the agronomic culture of Islam. It is also possible for historians of agronomy to relate, using this text, the Mesopotamian contribution to the development of the science of agriculture.

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