Tulips: An Ornamental Crop in the Andalusian Middle Ages |
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Authors: | J Esteban Hernández Bermejo Expiración García Sánchez |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Resources, University of Cordoba, Campus Rabanales, 14071 Córdoba, Spain;(2) Department of Arabic Studies, School of Arabic Studies, Spanish National Research Council, Cuesta del Chapiz 22, 18010 Granada, Spain |
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Abstract: | Tulips: An Ornamental Crop in the Andalusian Middle Ages. The authors are working on the project “Crop Flora of al-Andalus,” which aims to recover the crop diversity of the Middle
Ages in western Europe during the Islamic period. The documental sources of this study are all the agricultural treatises
written in this territory and culture between the 10th and 14th centuries. Al-Andalus was the territory occupied by Islam
between the 8th and 15th centuries, varying over time on varying regions on the Iberian Peninsula. In this period, a genuine
agricultural revolution took place, as well as the incorporation into the Western world of many Eastern agricultural species.
When we focused on the study of ornamental species used in gardens, courtyards, and houses, tulips could be identified in
several texts, the main one being the ‘Umda, a botanical work written at the end of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th, probably by the agronomist Abu l-Jayr.
Tulips are mentioned in this text 500 years before the first known references to their introduction into Europe, traditionally
asserted to be from the Ottoman Empire to Holland via Austria, always in the 16th century. Thus the route of these ornamental
bulbs in their passage from East to West must be modified. |
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Keywords: | Tulipia Tulips Andalusia ornamental plants Europe Middle East Turkey Islam |
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