Agricultural Knowledge in Andalusia According to Ibn  Awwām's Al-Falāhḥat al-Andalusiyya

Al-Falāhḥat al-Andalusiyya, written by Ibn ‘Awwām Ishbīlī (Seville) is the most important medieval work on agriculture. The current analytical and descriptive study intends to cast a new light on Ibn ‘Awwām’s method of evaluating, classifying and editing of agricultural knowledge of his time, and to answer this question: what is the status of Ibn ‘Awwām’s book in the Islamic agricultural knowledge of his age? What influences have it had on its subsequent works? Research results show that the method of this book is comparable with today's books; his research-based method utilizes truthfully theoretical and empirical sciences of his time. His advanced approach is reflected in clear definition of agriculture that is comparable with the definition of this science in the modern era.