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2448: 727: 1873:. Abu Ubayd Allah stressed the importance of keeping in mind the financial needs of the taxpayers, and argued that a fixed tax would cause problems for taxpayers due to changes in prices. A key reason he and other officials supported this new system of taxation was that, this way, landlords would share the risk with the government in case of a bad harvest, thus reducing conflict between the state and the landed elite. Another reason was because, under the 'alā l-misāḥa system, independent grain merchants had a great deal of control over prices; by switching to the muqāsama system, the state could increase its control of the grain market in Iraq, where it needed to supply the most important cities in the caliphate. 2541:, or village chiefs, formed the lowest rung of the Sasanian landed elite. They remained after the Islamic conquest, with their village estates formed "the prevailing form of land-tenure in post-conquest Iraq." The government frequently consulted them on matters concerning land and irrigation, as well as for help with collecting taxes; the dihqans' local knowledge made them essential for this purpose. In return, they were allowed to collect a special tax on local cultivators. However, their importance began to decrease with the rise of new Arab landowners, including Sasanian urban and military converts to Islam and their descendants; this process happened gradually, over the course of 60 or 70 years. 437:
and economic collapse, with many villages destroyed, communications disrupted, robbery and brigandry were rampant, and cultivation was made practically impossible. By the early 10th century, 62% of settlements in the area around Baghdad had become abandoned. Yet at the same time, a movement of popular nostalgia emerged, "glorifying indigenous 'Nabataean' achievements, especially those connected with the spread of civilization and the improvement of agriculture. Even as actual conditions were deteriorating intolerably, exhaustively detailed compendiums were appearing with elaborate botanical nomenclature and careful specifications of all the procedures and requirements of good husbandry."
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implies a density of about 95 date palms per hectare. Today, on the other hand, the typical practice in the area around Basra is to pack 450 trees into a hectare. The Neo-Babylonian standard of 227 trees per hectare is also much denser. The apparent low density of early Islamic date palm orchards remains an unsolved problem. It's possible, however, that this is just an artifact of how the contemporary taxes were set: they may have been intentionally set low in order to encourage more date palm production, and that in practice the actual density was much higher.
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tortured people who refused to comply with their demands. Abu Yusuf describes some of these tortures. Tax farmers would severely beat taxpayers, or make them stand out in the hot sun on one foot for a long time. The punishments for defaulters were even more severe: tax collectors would hang heavy stones or buckets filled with water around their necks, or tie them up with ropes and left to starve. Yet, despite these condemnations, the punishments and torture continued for a long time thereafter, sometimes even with official sanction. In 847,
27: 149: 492:. Insufficient gradient in local irrigation systems resulted in poor drainage of salts from the soil. To counter this, laborers, including the Zanj, were tasked with removing the salty topsoil and piling it up by the sides of the canals. As many as 45 million tons of soil were moved in this manner, but even this was insufficient. After Basra itself was sacked by the Zanj and then again by the Qarmatians, much of the fields were abandoned and never brought into cultivation again. 796:(both animal and human), or ash and cinders. Ibn Wahshiyya preferred this kind. The second kind was "composite" manure, which consisted of a mixture of several types of "natural" manure along with earth and water, and was left to decompose after mixing. Different crops called for different kinds of manure, and some needed no fertilization at all. Manure was traded and sold locally, according to several sources, including Ibn Wahshiyya, 605: 596:, designed to relieve the weir during floods. The regulators were made of brick and date from the 9th century, although the arch on the right bank appears older and was probably built by the 8th century at the latest. Both regulators have vertical lines of holes, which were designed so that wooden beams could be inserted into them to hold the structures' planks in place when the sluice needed to be partially or fully closed. 141: 457: 324:
the Abbasid Caliphate led to a neglect of the rural economy and more corrupt exploitation of the peasantry in search of short-term profits. This led to a long period of decline in population and in cultivated area over the centuries until the Mongol conquest. The destruction accompanying the Mongol conquest was the dramatic final blow to the patterns of settlements in Iraq.
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technology, the total labor requirement would have been 1 million people. Assuming an average family size of 4 people, the total agricultural population of rural Iraq at that time would have been 4 million people. This is in addition to an assumed non-agricultural population in Iraq (also including cities) of 1.8 million.
302:, whereas the worst flood on the Euphrates was in 1929 with only 5,200 cumecs. The Euphrates was therefore more manageable, while settlements along the Tigris had to be built away from the river to avoid being destroyed by flooding. Additionally, the Tigris's banks were so deep that canals had to be extended far down the 230:) in the Batihah: Bahassa, Bakhmasa, Basriyatha, and finally al-Muhammadiyah, which was the largest. Below the Hawr al-Muhammadiyah, the channel called the Nahr Abi'l-As'ad finally carried the waters of the Batihah to the head of the Dijlah al-`Awra', or "one-eyed Tigris". The hydrography of the Bata'ih was not static. 2674: 294:
mountains, and melting snows in the mountains lead to high water in April. The Euphrates, on the other hand, mostly consists of water from the Anatolian highlands, and melting snow reaches lower Mesopotamia later, in early May. This is too late to help with growing crops for the May and June harvest season.
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manufacturing. At these sites today, there are vast mounds, hundreds of meters long, consisting mainly of glass slag. There are also numerous remains of what were once glass furnaces. This indicates the large scale of the glass industry here. Where the raw materials serving this industry came from is
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to grow there naturally. These weeds would draw out water from the soil and cause it to dry out, thus creating a dry subsoil below the root area and above the water table. When the field was irrigated the next year, the water would seep down into the dry layer and take any salts from the surface with
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were made from boiled and peeled wheat. Other dishes consisted of a paste made from mashed meat and pearl wheat. Most Iraqi peasants ate more barley-based breads, which were often made with millet and beans mixed in. Additionally, a kind of alcoholic beverage was prepared from a mixture of barley and
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movement that followed it was even larger and longer-lasting, leading to the area under state control shrinking dramatically and "prospects for any constructive, long-term approach to the agrarian economy diminished to the vanishing point." Contemporary sources report this as a time of administrative
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at one point used the term "jizya lands" to refer to the concept that would later become known as kharaj lands, and in one instance, the farmers of the Sawad apparently requested that their tax payments be changed from jizya to sadaqa. Over the centuries, however, a distinction emerged between these
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in 915: in many formerly prosperous districts, a drop by 90% or more took place "in this period of less than a single human life span." In the intervening years, there had been several decades of rural unrest and conflict, provoked by years of increasing tax burdens and abuses by state officials, as
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Later on, however, a vast canal system came to use the flow of the Tigris to supplement the Euphrates: during the winter growing season, when the Tigris was less prone to intense flooding, Tigris water was brought in, and then its headworks closed off and protected as much as possible, while now the
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Contemporary writers did not provide any extensive descriptions of rural villages. Ibn Wahshiyya gave only some details: he wrote that villages should be built on elevated ground such as hillocks, and if this was not naturally available then he said an artificial elevation should be built from wood
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weir in 1957–58, which al-Khatib al-Baghdadi mentioned as serving the Nahrawan canal and which serves as a model for our understanding of how weirs were built during that period. It served to raise the water level in front of it (i.e. upstream) to a height 3 meters above the area downstream, and it
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During this period, both large cities and small villages increased in number and in size, while medium-sized towns decreased in percentage of all settlements compared to the Parthian era. This indicates that the growing population in large cities consisted of people who originally had come from the
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and its hinterlands east of the Tigris, while investing less in the regions on the west bank. Thus, settlement retracted west of the Tigris from its peak during Parthian rule. In the Diyala valley east of the Tigris, however, settlement reached its peak, with over twice as many settlements and over
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The vast, complex systems that emerged during the Sassanid period ultimately made local self-sufficiency impossible. Lack of maintenance on canals could have a strong adverse effect on faraway regions. This made state supervision of the infrastructure absolutely necessary to maintain this degree of
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At its apex under the late Sasanian period, the irrigation system of the Sawad must have diverted virtually the entire flow of both the Tigris and Euphrates to agricultural purposes. Regarding the Euphrates, Robert M. Adams wrote that, "with a whole series of massive diversions upstream, it is not
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suggested that, after the opening of the Katul al-Kisrawi made water readily available to farmers in the lower Nahrawan region, over-irrigation caused the water table to rise dramatically. Today, much of this region's soil is too saline for irrigated agriculture, and the area is largely abandoned.
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Settlement in Iraq reached its apex during the late Sassanid period. The tumult surrounding the Islamic conquest led to a sudden, steep decline. Fairly quickly, however, the Muslims were able to restore much of the Sassanid establishment. However, from the mid-800s onward, political instability in
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Contemporary financial records seem to imply that the palm trees themselves were exceptionally spread out in early Islamic orchards. The tax schedules say that date orchards paid 5–10 dirhams per jarib in taxes, which at a rate of 1/2 dirham per ordinary tree and 1 dirham per finer "Persian" tree
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The timing of the flooding in the Euphrates was less helpful than the Tigris. The Tigris, however, is prone to flooding, since winter and spring storms in the Zagros mountains lead to highly destructive floods. The most destructive flood on the Tigris in modern times was in 1954, when there was a
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or fallow lands, as well as some limited and tightly controlled grazing from young barley shoots. Another important source is uncultivated land, but as the total cultivated area expanded under the Sasanians to reach almost the maximum potential capacity, the availability of this land for grazing
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for the pool. It was buttressed with a tower at each end and built on a raised platform at the same height as the spillway. In front of the abutments were two guide banks: the one on the right, as with the abutment on that side, helped serve as a closing wall, and the one on the left ended in a
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Under this model, the hypothetical annual net output per worker would be 2757 kg of grain. An average agricultural family of 4 is assigned a subsistence income of 1000 kg of grain per year, which would be equivalent to 154 dirhams per year, or 13 per month. This means that out of net
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condemned the injustices against taxpayers in the Sawad, saying that tax farmers were breaking the law for their own financial benefit. He said that they "rob the taxpayer by imposing on them taxes they do not owe and punish them in repulsive ways to secure their own profit". Tax farmers often
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wrote a detailed description of the cultivation of rice in the Sawad. There were two growing seasons for rice in the Sawad: a summer season, which was entirely dependent on irrigation, and a winter season, which was supported by rainfall. Summer rice was planted during the second half of July
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The lands of the Sawad were among the most fertile in the Islamic world, but this productivity was almost totally dependent on artificial irrigation: dry farming requires 200 mm of rainfall per year, an amount reached in almost nowhere in the Sawad. Basra, for instance, has 60 mm of
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was used to cover walls and floors, especially in rooms and buildings used for storage. He said that isolated, independently standing houses were best, but if space was tight then they could be built adjoining each other as long as the necessary ventilation was provided. He also stressed the
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The main crop-growing season in this region comes during the winter, and irrigation is needed at least monthly. However, neither the Tigris nor the Euphrates reaches its high water mark during the winter when farmers need water the most: the Tigris is fed by several tributaries in the Zagros
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The total rural population of the medieval Sawad can be calculated from the extent of the farmland. Assuming 3 million hectares of winter cereal crops in the late 8th/early 9th century, and the ability of a person to reap 3 hectares during the 2-month-long harvest season using contemporary
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Under the Sassanids, the area in cultivation in the Diyala basin reached an extent that had never been attained before, and never would be again. During this time, almost 8,000 square kilometers were brought into cultivation, almost totally covering the region with farmland. A two-field
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as well as various beverages, and, despite Islamic prohibition, they were used to make a type of intoxicant. Ibn Wahshiyya praises the myriad uses of the date palm, remarking that every part of the tree was useful – it provided timber for construction, its fronds could be used to make
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described the Bata'ih as covered by reed beds crossed by water channels, where enormous amounts of fish where caught, then salted and exported to neighboring provinces. The water level was too shallow for most river boats to pass through, and only special pole-propelled vessels called
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Much of the meat consumed in Baghdad would have come from the steppes of northern Iraq, but some would also have come from the Sawad as well. Southern Iraq does not have any natural pastures, so the livestock raised here had to be fed grain. In addition, they could partly be fed with
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and mud. This served two purposes: the first, he said, was for better health, and the second was to provide an elevated lookout point over the surrounding fields. Houses were built from either baked or sun-dried bricks, with high walls and many openings to provide
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Originally, the kharaj tax was supposed to represent a tax on the land of non-Muslims. However, over time, as the dihqans either sold their lands to Muslims or themselves converted to Islam, the status of kharaj land also applied to Muslims. The Umayyad caliph
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In Iraq, there are two very distinct seasons: summer and winter. Spring and autumn are very short. Summer, which lasts from May through October, is intensely hot and dry, with the sky mostly cloudless and rain extremely rare. The prevailing northwest wind (the
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was even used to cement the sides of the ponds. He said that these practices should be abolished and prescribed that drinking water should instead be provided by being collected on clean roofs of houses, and then directed down the sides of the houses into a
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greatly enlarged Euphrates was used to support irrigation efforts. This massive reshaping of the natural relationship between these rivers, which reached its peak during the Sasanian period, led to a mushrooming population and the rise of many new cities.
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The Abbasid government played a role in supervising cultivation. It would sometimes loan money to farmers to help them buy seed and livestock. Some poorer farmers were directly given seeds. The government expected repayment in full after the harvest.
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During the Sasanian period, and probably continuing into the Early Islamic period, large-scale industrial operations were carried out even in the countryside, far from the major cities. For example, one newly-dug Sasanian canal in the area north of
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Over time, the distinction between kharaj lands and ushr lands became blurred, and eventually the two categories were merged into one category, which kept the name kharaj. This merger appears to have taken place during the reign of the caliph
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During the medieval period, the lower Tigris followed a different course than it does today. It had shifted further west due to the floods of the early 7th century (before this, its course was the same as it is today). It passed the city of
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were the most popular fruit in Iraqi markets. Ibn Wahshiyya wrote that they were widely cultivated in Iraq and listed eight different varieties of them, but said that it would be difficult to list all the varieties grown at the time.
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Michele Campopiano, “Land Tax Alā l-misāḥa and muqāsama: Legal Theory and Balance of Social Forces in Early Medieval Iraq (Sixth to Eighth Centuries)”, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 54/2, 2011, 239–269
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At the maximum extent under the late Sasanian dynasty, the Iraqi countryside would have been under "virtually continuous cultivation", supporting a much larger population than in previous periods. During the time of the caliphs
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noted that four districts paid taxes in barley and rice instead of the usual barley and wheat, indicating that rice was a particularly widespread crop there. These districts were Sura and Barbisama, Furat Badaqla, Nistar, and
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by Muslims shortly after the conquest of Iraq. In the Batiha area, the land had been reclaimed via drainage, and in the Ṣibākh area, it had been reclaimed by clearing the silt. Much of this process was described in detail by
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of the protective levees built along the river in order to keep a high enough water level. Yet these labor-intensive canal offtakes were directly exposed to the floods and could be suddenly buried under a deep layer of silt.
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it. Down there, the salts would become "trapped" and prevented from being brought up to the surface by capillary action. Another method farmers used involved planting a field with barley and then, after the harvest, having
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unknown, but Robert M. Adams provided one possible explanation: by late Sasanian times, the area to the south of this canal was increasingly becoming part of the great swamp. Here, there would have been large numbers of
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From the Sasanians to the Abbasids, the peasants of the Sawad formed "a legally subordinate class, working the estates of large landlords, and from which surplus in the form of taxes, rents, and labor were extracted".
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was practiced extensively in the Sawad. According to Umar's policy, any freeman was allowed to sell his Nabataean neighbor as a slave if they were in dire financial straits; this policy was upheld by the caliph
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The techniques used by farmers in the medieval Sawad were mostly the same as those used by twentieth-century Iraqi farmers. Buzjani and Ibn Wahshiyya both wrote extensively on such practices. Several different
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to abolish it. The governors of eastern Abbasid provinces gave hadaya to the caliph in the form of rare and valuable items made by local artisans from their province. For the festival of Nowruz in 282 AH,
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Construction of canals was very expensive. It was often financed by private investors who expected to turn a profit out of the deal. Usually, all the governor did was provide land for irrigation projects.
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Due to gravity, the canals of the Sawad had to be elevated slightly above the ground. This came with significant risk: if there was a breach in the canal's banks, the water would flood surrounding fields.
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maintaining the landlord's rural properties. These agents were responsible for overseeing daily work, providing necessities like seed and farm tools, and potentially hiring additional workers if needed.
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Archaeological evidence indicates that there was "a precipitate retreat from a vast central area of the Sawad" during this period, only reversing itself in modern times. After the golden age of the
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production, 36% was kept by the peasants, while taxes were 26% and rents were 38%. Thus almost 2/3 of the Sawad's total net production went to supporting the urban population and upper classes.
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that were prevalent in the Sawad: people would dig holes or use natural slopes to collect rainwater in ponds without making sure that either the ground or the water itself was clean — cattle
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could be used for transport. Most of the marshes were covered by water, but there were some areas with good soil, where people formed settlements, grew crops, and dug canals for irrigation.
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in Iraq, although most of them were no longer extant or operational at the time he wrote. The most extensive archaeological work done on one of those weirs has been done on the Abbasid-era
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from 786 to 809, imperial revenues from the Sawad plummeted from 100 million dirhams to only 20 million by the early 10th century. The sharpest decline took place between the records of
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twice the built-up area as during the Parthian period. In this region, human settlement was as much as 35 times denser and more extensive than it had been under the Achaemenid kings.
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The enormous economic potential of the Sawad is reflected in early Abbasid revenue lists: the Sawad produced four times as much tax revenue as the second-highest-producing province,
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action from eroding the sides of the pool to a point where the water could spill around the weir on the other side. Finally, 140 meters upstream from the spillway, there were two
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The ushr tax was a tax on the agricultural output of lands owned by Muslims. The rate on this tax was usually lower than that of the kharaj, at 10% to 25%, but under the caliphs
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were built in front of the spillway, one on each side, to contain the water even during a flood. The right abutment was built more solidly than the left, and it also served as a
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Breads made from wheat and barley formed the main food for most Iraqis, especially in major urban areas such as Baghdad, Wasit, Basra, and Kufa. An especially popular dish was
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there. Fishing may have been done in some canals, with at least two canals being named after types of fish that lived in them. Canals could also be used to power mills or for
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Most of the inhabitants of the Sawad were called "Nabataeans". Although they converted to Islam, they maintained many pre-Islamic traditions and spoke a distinct dialect of
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to bring saline water up to the surface. Too little irrigation, on the other hand, left no extra water to leach the salts that had been deposited from previous irrigation.
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in the region, leading to widespread emigration. The repercussions were felt heavily in Baghdad, since there was a desperate lack of grain leading to starvation.
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Maintaining the vast irrigation systems of Iraq required a large number of workers. In addition to the surveyors and engineers mentioned above, there were also
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In order to protect against excessive salt or water buildup in the soil, farmers would leave fields uncultivated for a while, allowing deep-rooted weeds like
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in cultivation during a single winter. (Since land was fallowed every other year, the actual amount of land set aside for grains would have been twice that.)
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observed, the Tigris watered the area to the east of the river, whereas the area to the west of the Tigris was irrigated with waters from the Euphrates.
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to undertake a general land survey of the Sawad, in order to make the taxation of the Sawad more centralized. Taxpayers resented this land survey.
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According to Ibn Wahshiyya and Sabi, almost all the landlords of the Sawad lived in larger cities and towns, with their representatives, called
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may occur anywhere in Iraq during the winter, except for the southernmost parts, and they come in the wake of the depressions, after the rain.
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According to Ibn Wahshiyya, six different kinds of wheat were grown in the Sawad. The most important wheat-growing areas were located around
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and siege of Baghdad in 865, which "wiped out any notion that the government's reciprocal function of protection could be honoured". The
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eventually came to refer to the rural district around a particular city; thus, contemporary geographers made references to the Sawad of
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was a crucial crop, almost as important as cereals like wheat, barley, and rice. Basra alone grew 300 varieties at the time of Caliph
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Under Persian rule, the Persian settlement had been heaviest in the area east of the Tigris, as well as in certain garrison cities.
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were also grown as fodder as well as to replenish soils, but their importance appears to have declined after the second century AH.
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introduced a temporary reduction of the rate, from the common 50% to 40%. The muqāsama system was introduced with the support of
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Throughout its history, the Sawad was crisscrossed by many canals. In the Islamic period, most canals ran west to east, from the
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rule. It had been collected from the peasants twice a year and spent to buy gifts for the king during the festivals of
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Since the destruction largely occurred west of the Tigris, the Sassanid emperors focused on developing the region of
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At first, the terms that would come to be used for various types of taxes were not clearly distinguished. The words
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used to fertilize crops in the Sawad. The first was "natural" manure, which consisted of either dried plant matter,
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was grown in Iraq, with Ibn Wahshiyya and al-Dinawari each distinguishing between two varieties of citron: sweet (
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was especially cultivated in the Sawad of Basra. Ibn Wahshiyya considered the ideal soil for growing cotton to be
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tax but would still have to pay kharaj. (Abbasid-period writers attributed this policy to the Rashidun caliph
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regions. Rice was often served with fish and/or vegetables. Various recipes called for rice to be cooked with
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succeeded him, he ordered the reconstruction of dykes and was able to reclaim part of the flooded land. Under
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unlikely that in Sasanian times the Euphrates entered the swamps ... with very little if any residual flow."
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The amount of water used in irrigation was crucial: excessive irrigation would cause a dangerous rise in the
899:, although both districts experienced a steep decline in wheat production by the end of the 3rd century AH. 950: 266:) are accompanied by cold temperatures, cloudy skies, and rain. Average winter rainfall is about 5 inches. 3165:
Heartland of Cities: Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates
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Ibn Wahshiyya also enumerates 35 different kinds of "unfruitful trees" which were planted to supply wood.
925:
was grown in the parts of the Sawad that were warm and humid – two conditions necessary for it to thrive.
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described the four districts surrounding Baghdad as extremely productive, which is partly why the caliph
425: 1712:, with the tax rate being 50% of the crops grown on kharaj land. This rate was maintained by the caliph 1620:, introduced a "furnace of iron which had protruding nails inside it" to be used to punish tax evaders. 781:
were grown this way rather than from seeds. Ibn Wahshiyya wrote a detailed description of the practice.
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The government ministry responsible for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects was the
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describe the general administrative setup of the 9th-century Sawad. It was divided into 12 districts (
1820:, its value rose to as much as 50 million dirhams annually. The hadaya was abolished a second time by 2636: 1701:, as a way of giving it more legitimacy, since the Umayyads had become infamous under the Abbasids.) 1301:
Ibn Wahshiyya listed the following as fruits grown widely in most parts of Iraq during his lifetime:
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was especially known for growing figs. Al-Dinawari distinguished between four basic types of figs:
195:
In Sasanian times, the Euphrates likely entered the swamps close to the site of the modern town of
189: 64:, it was an official political term for a province encompassing most of modern Iraq except for the 1893:; there were only 10 at Ibn Khordadbeh's time), each of which consisted of several sub-districts ( 424:
well as outright looting by Turkish mercenaries. The single greatest precipitating event was the
1693:
established a policy that, if a landlord converted to Islam, he would no longer have to pay the
669:) instead of water thrust. These were commonly used around Baghdad and Anbar. The third was the 623:
outlined five main mechanical devices used for irrigation purposes in the Sawad. The first, the
3018:"The Feeding of the five Hundred Thousand: Cities and Agriculture in Early Islamic Mesopotamia" 1118:
and free of salt. It was sown between late April and late May, and harvested in June and July.
20: 2743: 1536:) grow there without irrigation. This also had a similar effect, and had the added benefit of 2556:. (The walls were high to make space for all the openings.) Tree trunks were used either for 764: 555: 333: 972:
Rice, and particularly rice bread, was a dietary staple in southern Iraq, especially in the
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Various types of flowers were grown, mainly for use in medicine. Ibn Wahshiyya singled out
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sometimes threatened the security of the region, particularly the areas to the west of the
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district, millet was used alongside barley to pay taxes, indicating its local importance.
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trees and then covered with a mixture of mud and straw. Ibn Wahshiyya also described how
751:, which documents many of the agricultural practices of the Sawad in the 3rd century AH. 633:
powered by the flow of the stream itself. They were used extensively in the area of the
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In practice, tax collectors often took far more than the official rate. According to
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shrank, likely bringing people and livestock into direct competition for resources.
865:, which consisted of pieces of bread with either vegetable soup or a combination of 303: 3419: 3287: 3029: 1748: 1581: 1434: 477: 353: 26: 3061: 2979: 2173: 1829: 1713: 1708:, the standard implementation of the kharaj tax in the Sawad came in the form of 813: 801: 412: 2342: 1853:, at the behest of the Muslims of Iraq. Under this new system, which was called 376:
system was likely employed during this period, just as it was in Islamic times.
368:
medium-sized towns, rather than rural population moving to large urban centers.
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in each village to supply residents with everyday items or building materials.
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to support the ceilings, and the ceilings themselves were lined with wood from
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were often used interchangeably in early Islamic writings. At one point in the
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was a simple animal-powered device used to transport water taken from wells.
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Administrative divisions of the 9th-century Sawad (from El-Samarraie, 1970)
820:, the total winter acreage for cereal crops has been estimated at 3 million 148: 3278:
Waines, David (1977). "The third century internal crisis of the Abbasids".
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were also grown for use as fodder in the Sawad. Ibn Wahshiyya recorded the
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were grown in every district of the Sawad. In most of these districts, the
817: 638: 512:, since water level in the Tigris was lower than that of the Euphrates. As 441: 384: 345: 129: 40:
was the name used in early Islamic times (7th–12th centuries) for southern
1841:, indicating that the hadaya may have continued even through this period. 1776:
was a tax collected from all adult male non-Muslims in the Sawad. Only in
2614: 2507: 2078: 1346: 1044:; Ibn Wahshiyya considered it the ideal fodder for livestock, especially 1013: 989: 679:, was a bucket operated by four people; it was in use in the area of the 630: 473: 192:
described the shift as taking place in the period between 1500 and 1650.
185: 98: 49: 706:, who supervised water levels, flow, and capacity of rivers and canals; 3299: 2586: 2187: 1474: 1350: 1275: 1268: 907: 902:
Perhaps due to its greater resilience to the increasing soil salinity,
797: 778: 657:, was another type of waterwheel; it was powered by animals (typically 513: 396: 380: 233: 2739: 2590: 2523: 2245: 2106: 1858: 1825: 1733: 1717: 1645: 1608: 1505: 1478: 1444: 1438: 1188: 1115: 1001: 866: 853: 642: 505: 360: 282: 3411: 3291: 957:). Winter rice, meanwhile, was planted at the beginning of January ( 469:
rainfall per year. Without irrigation, agriculture here would fail.
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wrote that "the inhabitants of the Sawad are servants and slaves."
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was also an important sesame producer in the early 4th century AH.
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The most detailed account of Islamic canals is that of Suhrāb, or
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Land Behind Baghdad: A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains
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Ibn Wahshiyya disapproved of the unsanitary methods of obtaining
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A new system of taxation was introduced under the Abbasid caliph
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lasted for 15 years before finally being quelled in 883, and the
238: 203: 177: 125: 109: 94: 1235:). Later, in the early 4th century AH, citrus trees such as the 530:
A canal could become the center of urban activity: for example,
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urged him to lower it. It was lowered to 40% under the caliph
673:; it was a waterwheel powered by human labor. The fourth, the 2358: 2317: 2255: 2102: 1946: 1773: 1744: 1694: 1680:
tax was also important for non-Muslim peasants in the Sawad.
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lined both sides of his canal with shops and moved the local
489: 299: 267: 223: 173: 161: 157: 121: 113: 2573: 2367: 1869:, the vizier under al-Mahdi who authored the first book on 1673: 1564: 1382: 1310: 1151: 1143: 1121: 1049: 997: 981: 922: 613: 589: 571:, 37.56 meters wide and 30 meters deep, and made of a well- 559: 271: 211: 117: 41: 1437:, which produced a dark orange dye and was also used for 1406: 1059: 1055: 1045: 993: 906:
was a more common crop than wheat in the medieval Sawad.
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A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times
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banned the purchase of dhimmi serfs because they were
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Sawad was classified as ushr land because it had been
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was done with vines if there was enough space for it.
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was used to level a field after it had been ploughed.
3201: 3199: 3197: 3195: 3193: 3191: 3189: 3187: 3185: 3183: 3137: 3135: 3133: 3131: 3129: 3127: 3125: 3123: 3121: 3119: 2388:; possibly combined with Barusama as a single tassuj) 1000:. Rice-based pastries were also eaten, and a type of 848:
tax was paid mostly in the form of those two grains.
665:, although in the area of Anbar they were powered by 3232: 3220:. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1837:records a gift-giving of this nature to the caliph 1278:were another commonly grown fruit. The district of 440:The intentional breaching of the Nahrawan canal by 383:first formed during the Sasanian era. According to 3180: 3116: 1146:was grown both for its textile use as well as for 3333: 3331: 3329: 464:as it appeared near the turn of the 20th century. 3442: 3327: 3325: 3323: 3321: 3319: 3317: 3315: 3313: 3311: 3309: 2973: 2971: 2969: 2967: 2965: 226:on the Tigris. Suhrab lists four great lagoons ( 2963: 2961: 2959: 2957: 2955: 2953: 2951: 2949: 2947: 2945: 2943: 2941: 2939: 2937: 2935: 2933: 2931: 2929: 2927: 2925: 2923: 2921: 2919: 2917: 2915: 2913: 2911: 2909: 2907: 2905: 2903: 2901: 2899: 2897: 2895: 2893: 2891: 2889: 2887: 2885: 2883: 2881: 2879: 2877: 2875: 2873: 2871: 2869: 2867: 2865: 2863: 2861: 2859: 2857: 2855: 2853: 2851: 2849: 2847: 2845: 2843: 2841: 2839: 2837: 2835: 2833: 2831: 2829: 2827: 2825: 2823: 2821: 2819: 2817: 2815: 2813: 2811: 2809: 2807: 2805: 2803: 2801: 2799: 2797: 2795: 2793: 2791: 2789: 2787: 2785: 914:in particular as an important barley producer. 856:chose Baghdad for the site of his new capital. 274:sometimes lays on the ground for several days. 97:. It replaced the earlier and more narrow term 3358: 2981:Agriculture in Iraq during the 3rd/9th century 2783: 2781: 2779: 2777: 2775: 2773: 2771: 2769: 2767: 2765: 1086:as producing these crops in large quantities. 488:A similar phenomenon occurred in the Sawad of 3405: 3403: 3401: 3399: 3397: 3395: 3337: 3306: 2534:: subject to payment of the kharaj land tax. 1477:, which in Iraq was far more widespread than 1032:Described as a summer crop by Ibn Wahshiyya, 788:Ibn Wahshiyya described two general types of 567:supplied 11 branch canals. It consisted of a 3338:Allen, Robert C.; Heldring, Leander (2016). 2977: 2505:compared this system with that of the Roman 714:, who bound reeds for use in building dams; 690: 288: 84: 2762: 1876: 1567:was studded with sites that specialized in 588:tower. The closing walls served to prevent 3409: 3392: 3108:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2650:The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition 1592:In the year 105 AH (723–4 CE), the caliph 1008:was produced in many districts, including 3033: 3011: 3009: 3007: 3005: 3003: 3001: 2999: 2748:. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 513. 1110:The most important textile crop in Iraq, 3371:. Abu Dhabi: Trident Press. p. 31. 3093: 2626: 2462:12th-century Iraqi earthenware water jar 2457: 2446: 1451:valley, and was grown in the regions of 1161: 725: 603: 599: 455: 147: 139: 25: 3087: 3015: 1433:), which produced a deep blue dye, and 1425:), which produced a yellow-orange dye, 3443: 3277: 3271: 3168:. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 3055: 3053: 2996: 1500:in particular; they were used to make 285:that now sweep all over the country." 3364: 3243: 3213: 3161: 2745:A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic 1514: 1106:Textile crops: cotton, flax, and hemp 218:, while in the northeast it began at 3059: 2738: 575:mixture of lime, pebbles, limestone 132:. This usage was exclusive to Iraq. 30:Map of the Sawad ("Irak") under the 3050: 2718:Quoted in Allen and Heldring, p. 11 2658:. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 87. 1792:, or "gifts", had originated under 1614:Muhammad ibn Abdul-Malik al-Zayiyat 1543: 832: 85: 13: 3094:Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley (1925). 2978:El-Samarraie, Husam Qawam (1970). 1166:Contemporary date palm orchard at 710:, who disposed of unneeded waste; 16:Historical region in Southern Iraq 14: 3477: 1623: 1489:as ideal for sesame cultivation. 1286:, grown in gardens and orchards; 645:, and in the western part of the 3466:Iraq under the Abbasid Caliphate 3461:Iraq under the Umayyad Caliphate 1447:was introduced to Iraq from the 1027: 777:was practiced extensively: most 2712: 2699: 1254: 2984:. London: University of London 2732: 2686: 2454:-era bowl, 9th–10th century CE 2434:belonging to multiple tassujs) 2424:belonging to multiple tassujs) 1400: 934:. The rice plantations around 827: 721: 262:. The southeast winds (called 1: 3096:Four Centuries of Modern Iraq 3066:. Routledge. pp. 23–24. 2725: 1417:), which produced a red dye, 1247:were introduced to Iraq from 953:) and harvested in December ( 910:notes the region surrounding 451: 327: 3410:Campopiano, Michele (2011). 1804:. This tax was abolished by 1704:From the time of the caliph 1616:, the vizier for the caliph 743:Kitab al-filaha al-Nabatiyya 320:settlement and cultivation. 160:, and five times as much as 135: 7: 1844: 1587: 1557: 1294:, grown in flat areas; and 1207:These were used to produce 767:. An instrument called the 759:were in use, including the 419:in the mid-9th century and 339: 10: 3482: 2620: 2442: 1485:described the environs of 1174:In much of the Sawad, the 554:The 3rd-century AH author 402: 332:From as early as the late 314: 244: 18: 3365:Potts, Daniel T. (2002). 3244:Adams, Robert M. (1972). 3214:Adams, Robert M. (1965). 3162:Adams, Robert M. (1981). 3035:10.1017/S0021088900000152 1808:, but it was restored by 1783: 1683: 1218: 1202: 748:The Nabataean Agriculture 737:wrote a detailed book on 691:Upkeep and administration 499: 289:Challenges to agriculture 3424:10.1163/156852011X586804 2679: 1877:Administrative divisions 1767: 1727: 1405:Plants grown for use in 1360: 1157: 1132:was used to make bread. 961:) and harvested in May ( 549: 279:Husam Qawam El-Samarraie 190:Stephen Hemsley Longrigg 152:Marshes of southern Iraq 144:Marshes of southern Iraq 2627:Schaeder, H.H. (1997). 1716:, although his advisor 1136:was also used to light 917: 564:ash-Shadhirwan al-Asfal 460:The now-dry bed of the 444:in 937 led to a severe 3451:History of Mesopotamia 3016:Kennedy, Hugh (2011). 2463: 2455: 1171: 731: 617: 476:, as well as enabling 465: 387:, during the reign of 153: 145: 34: 21:Sawad (disambiguation) 3060:Hill, Donald (1984). 2461: 2450: 2430:(possibly a separate 2420:(possibly a separate 1992:al-Madinah al-ʽAtiqah 1668:at the time were the 1165: 729: 607: 600:Mechanical irrigation 556:al-Khatib al-Baghdadi 459: 334:fourth millennium BCE 151: 143: 75:As a generic term in 29: 3247:The Uruk Countryside 3098:. Oxford. p. 2. 2694:The Uruk Countryside 2333:al-Fallujah al-Sufla 2328:al-Fallujah al-ʽUlya 2098:al-Nahrawan al-Asfal 2093:al-Nahrawan al-Awsat 1652:is used to refer to 996:, and seasoned with 683:canal. Finally, the 411:during the reign of 393:Khusraw I Anushirvan 19:For other uses, see 2707:Heartland of Cities 2396:Bih-Qubadh al-Asfal 2352:Bih-Qubadh al-Awsat 2311:Bih-Qubadh al- Aʽla 2088:al-Nahrawan al-Aʽla 1902: 1816:. Under the caliph 1656:. The early caliph 1090:wrote that, in the 637:, in the region of 3456:Historical regions 2464: 2456: 1900: 1812:and maintained by 1664:The main forms of 1515:Soil replenishment 1473:was grown to make 1223:At first only the 1172: 938:, as described by 732: 653:. The second, the 649:district, west of 618: 466: 222:, downstream from 154: 146: 62:Abbasid Caliphates 35: 2755:978-3-447-02002-2 2705:Quoted in Adams, 2692:Quoted in Adams, 2665:978-90-04-10422-8 2503:Alfred von Kremer 2440: 2439: 1883:Qudama ibn Ja'far 1814:Ali ibn Abi Talib 1578:calcium carbonate 1538:nitrogen fixation 1076:Asfal iqlīm Bābil 873:. Dishes such as 426:Abbasid civil war 409:Abbasid Caliphate 344:Warfare with the 70:Upper Mesopotamia 32:Abbasid Caliphate 3473: 3435: 3434: 3432: 3430: 3407: 3390: 3389: 3387: 3385: 3362: 3356: 3355: 3353: 3351: 3346: 3335: 3304: 3303: 3275: 3269: 3268: 3266: 3264: 3241: 3230: 3229: 3211: 3178: 3177: 3175: 3173: 3159: 3114: 3113: 3107: 3099: 3091: 3085: 3084: 3082: 3080: 3057: 3048: 3047: 3037: 3013: 2994: 2993: 2991: 2989: 2975: 2760: 2759: 2736: 2719: 2716: 2710: 2703: 2697: 2690: 2669: 2641:Heinrichs, W. P. 2239:Ardashir-Babakan 1903: 1899: 1881:The accounts of 1598:Umar Ibn Hubayra 1582:sodium carbonate 1544:Animal husbandry 1343:black mulberries 833:Wheat and barley 730:Near Basra, Iraq 478:capillary action 258:coming from the 176:and entered the 88: 87: 3481: 3480: 3476: 3475: 3474: 3472: 3471: 3470: 3441: 3440: 3439: 3438: 3428: 3426: 3408: 3393: 3383: 3381: 3379: 3363: 3359: 3349: 3347: 3344: 3336: 3307: 3292:10.2307/3631960 3286:(20): 282–306. 3276: 3272: 3262: 3260: 3258: 3242: 3233: 3212: 3181: 3171: 3169: 3160: 3117: 3101: 3100: 3092: 3088: 3078: 3076: 3074: 3058: 3051: 3014: 2997: 2987: 2985: 2976: 2763: 2756: 2737: 2733: 2728: 2723: 2722: 2717: 2713: 2704: 2700: 2691: 2687: 2682: 2666: 2633:Bosworth, C. E. 2623: 2585:necessity of a 2554:let sunlight in 2522:. According to 2445: 2302:al-Zab al-Asfal 2297:al-Zab al-Awsat 2275:Bih-Dhiumasufan 2174:Bahman-Ardashir 2071:Bazijan-Khusraw 2002:Radhan al-Asfal 1879: 1867:Abu Ubayd Allah 1847: 1830:Harun al-Rashid 1786: 1770: 1730: 1714:Harun al-Rashid 1686: 1626: 1590: 1576:as a source of 1560: 1546: 1517: 1403: 1365:These included 1363: 1257: 1221: 1205: 1160: 1108: 1030: 920: 835: 830: 814:Harun al-Rashid 802:Yaqut al-Hamawi 724: 697:Diwan al-Kharaj 693: 602: 558:listed some 30 552: 532:Bilal ibn Burda 502: 482:Robert M. Adams 454: 417:Ibn Khurdadhbeh 413:Harun al-Rashid 405: 342: 330: 317: 298:flow of 16,000 291: 247: 184:. According to 180:at the town of 138: 24: 17: 12: 11: 5: 3479: 3469: 3468: 3463: 3458: 3453: 3437: 3436: 3391: 3377: 3368:Feast of Dates 3357: 3305: 3270: 3256: 3231: 3179: 3115: 3086: 3072: 3049: 2995: 2761: 2754: 2730: 2729: 2727: 2724: 2721: 2720: 2711: 2698: 2684: 2683: 2681: 2678: 2677: 2676: 2670: 2664: 2637:van Donzel, E. 2622: 2619: 2602:drinking water 2444: 2441: 2438: 2437: 2436: 2435: 2425: 2415: 2410: 2405: 2398: 2392: 2391: 2390: 2389: 2379: 2374: 2365: 2354: 2348: 2347: 2346: 2345: 2340: 2335: 2330: 2325: 2320: 2313: 2307: 2306: 2305: 2304: 2299: 2294: 2292:al-Zab al-Aʽla 2287: 2271: 2270: 2269: 2268: 2263: 2258: 2253: 2248: 2241: 2235: 2234: 2233: 2232: 2227: 2222: 2217: 2205: 2199: 2198: 2197: 2196: 2191: 2181: 2176: 2169: 2163: 2162: 2161: 2160: 2155: 2150: 2145: 2138: 2122: 2121: 2120: 2119: 2114: 2109: 2100: 2095: 2090: 2083: 2067: 2066: 2065: 2064: 2059: 2054: 2049: 2044: 2039: 2030: 2025: 2020: 2013: 2007: 2006: 2005: 2004: 1999: 1997:Radhan al-Aʽla 1994: 1989: 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Index

Sawad (disambiguation)

Abbasid Caliphate
Iraq
alluvial plain
Mesopotamia
Arabian Desert
Umayyad
Abbasid Caliphates
Syrian Desert
Upper Mesopotamia
Arabic
Baghdad
Rādhān
Baghdad
Basra
Kufa
Wasit
Samarra
Anbar


Egypt
Syria
Palestine
Wasit
Batihah
Qatr
Donald Hill
Stephen Hemsley Longrigg

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