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Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World Michael allen Gillespie Regarded as a pattern-book ofAgricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 700 1100 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) This study describes and explains the revolutionary changes which transformed the agricultural life of the Islamicized world in the four centuries following the early Arab conquests. Professor Watson discusses eighteen crops from sorghum and rye to the watermelon which spread through the Near East and