Land-Tenure and Agriculture in the Medieval Maghrib from 1000 to 1500

• Applicant: Dr. Amar Baadj
• Subject Area: Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 310941208

Land-Tenure and Agriculture in the Medieval Maghrib from 1000 to 1500. This project has three phases: 1) In the first stage I will assign dates and provenance to the legal rulings that deal with agriculture and land tenure found in three large late medieval Maghribi collections of fatwas (nawazil). This will be accomplished using internal textual evidence that will possibly be supplemented by ongoing archeological work on hydraulic systems. 2) In the second stage I will write a history of the development of land-tenure practices and especially the iqta system in the Maghrib between 1000 and 1500 A.D. This will be based on the evidence of the nawazil as well as other legal texts, chronicles, geographies, and travels. Where possible I will also take into account archeological evidence. 3) In the third phase of this project the evidence from the Maghrib will be compared and contrasted with the information that we have regarding land tenure and agriculture in al-Andalus and the eastern Islamic World during the same period.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants