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Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The strength of Professor Varisco's work lies in his combination of
ethnographic fieldwork among highland Yemeni farmers with an
extensive study of medieval Arabic manuscripts on folk astronomy
and agriculture. The opening articles discuss the astronomical
concept of the 'lunar stations' in pre-Islamic Arabia and as
developed in Arab astronomy and almanac lore; subsequent ones
expand on the significance of this for an agricultural society, and
examine a unique corpus of Yemeni agricultural almanacs, dating
from the Rasulid period (13th-15th centuries) to the present. A
further theme is that of traditional Yemeni agriculture, with
studies on irrigation practices, plough cultivation, sorghum
production, and indigenous plant protection methods, as well as the
use of star calendars for seasonal markers.
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