Mentalités agraires sémitiques en al-Andalus - article ; n°1 ; vol.20, pg 149-156

Lucie Bolens-Halimi

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Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient - Année 1991 - Volume 20 - Numéro 1 - Pages 149-156
Although land village appears to have been intensive as determined by water needs and botanical knowledge in Islamic and Arabic Books of Agriculture, the main characteristic of this « Green Revolution » comes from specific ways of ploughing with human labour. The ecological purpose is to close the hard, dry surface of the earth, and to use hand tools for digging over or furrowing deeply. This adaption is a Mediterranean form of dry-farming.
From the first results of this research, I have tried to establish a Semitic « pattern » adding to the one first established for the Hebraic field. It can be reconstituted from Iberian documents if they are interpreted from the Bible and the Talmud: « Kilayim and Schebiith » books commenting on the Levitic Bible in Hebrew suggest an hypothesis concerning spatial organization of agriculture according to an ancestral belief, at a time when the Hebrew people had to protect their identity be separating themselves from the numerous pagan cultures of Near Eastern Antiquity.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: TRAVAUX_DE_LA_MAISON_DE_L-ORIENT
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1991
• Nombre de lectures: 21
• Langue: Français

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Lucie Bolens-Halimi

Mentalités agraires sémitiques en al-Andalus

In: Rites et rythmes agraires. Séminaire de recherche sous la direction de Marie-Claire Cauvin. Lyon : Maison de

l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1991. pp. 149-156. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient)

Abstract

Although land village appears to have been intensive as determined by water needs and botanical knowledge in Islamic and

Arabic Books of Agriculture, the main characteristic of this « Green Revolution » comes from specific ways of ploughing with

human labour. The ecological purpose is to close the hard, dry surface of the earth, and to use hand tools for digging over or

furrowing deeply. This adaption is a Mediterranean form of dry-farming.

From the first results of this research, I have tried to establish a Semitic « pattern » adding to the one first established for the

Hebraic field. It can be reconstituted from Iberian documents if they are interpreted from the Bible and the Talmud: « Kilayim and

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Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Bolens-Halimi Lucie. Mentalités agraires sémitiques en al-Andalus. In: Rites et rythmes agraires. Séminaire de recherche sous

la direction de Marie-Claire Cauvin. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1991. pp. 149-156. (Travaux

de la Maison de l'Orient)

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