Ibn al-'Awwam

Ibrahim al-'Awwam was a 12th century Sevilla agriculturist who wrote the Arabic treatise on agriculture, "Kitab al-fila-hah", one of the most important medieval works on the subject. It was published in Spanish and French translations.

In Al-Andalus, Ibn al-'Awwam al-Ishbili wrote the "Kitab al-Filaha" which synthesized his own agricultural knowledge with that of the "Nabatean Agriculture" and his other Arabic predecessors. This work also described 585 microbiological cultures, 55 of which concern fruit trees. This work was influential in Europe after it was translated into Spanish by Banqueri in Madrid in 1801 and into French by Clement-Mullet in Paris in 1864. [citation|last=Fahd|first=Toufic|contribution=Botany and agriculture|pages=848-9, in Harv|Morelon|Rashed|1996|pp=813-52]

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*Harvard reference
last1=Morelon
first1=Régis
last2=Rashed
first2=Roshdi
year=1996
title=Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science
volume=3
publisher=Routledge
isbn=0415124107