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

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پژوهشگر / پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی

10.30465/ehs.2025.36125.1706
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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.

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Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 28
December 2025
Pages 395-424

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