Tahqiqāt-e Târix-e Eqtesâdi (Economic History Studies of Iran)

Agronomy(Filāḥa )measures to deal with famines in the Middle Islamic period

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sadegh hojjati 1
sadegh hojjati 2

1 پژوهشگر / پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی

2 Researcher / Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

10.30465/ehs.2025.36125.1706
Abstract
The general perception of how to deal with these threats is passivity and tolerance of hunger and food shortages in famine. A study of agromony heritage of the Islamic period in the form of agromony shows that the scholars of the Islamic period, beyond the practical guidance and education of agriculture, have sought solutions and offered various solutions to deal with this natural phenomenon. So that the attention to the issue of famine and ways to deal with it is reflected in most of the Falahati texts, and several examples of it can be found. The measures presented in these works can be categorised along two axes: preparation and forecasting of shortages, and other practical measures in the face of famine-related difficulties. Crop procurement guidelines fall into the first category, even from poor and desert areas, storage methods, and long-term storage of grain. Also, strategies such as identifying grain alternative foods and correcting or reducing the side effects of feeding with these alternatives, introducing suitable additives to flour and bread as the dominant strength and some more detailed prescriptions in feeding methods and hunger tolerance of the main axes of the second part; It is a practical confrontation with famines.

Keywords

Agricultural Economics
Drought and Famine
Islamic agronomy
Food
Cereals
and Bread

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Tahqiqāt-e Târix-e Eqtesâdi (Economic History Studies of Iran)

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 20 September 2025

  • Receive Date 28 April 2021
  • Revise Date 09 September 2025
  • Accept Date 20 September 2025

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