Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and the Yemen
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Variorum Collected Studies
ISBN-10
086078651X
ISBN-13
9780860786511
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Variorum
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 25th, 1997
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
589 grams
Ksh 25,050.00
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This work employs a mixture of ethnographic fieldwork and the study of medieval Arabic scripts on folk astronomy and agriculture to explore the concept of "lunar stations" in pre-Islamic Arabia, their significance for agricultual society, and the traditional Yemeni agricultural practices.
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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