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Article: L'Agriculture nabateenne: Traduction en arabe attribuee a Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Ali al-Kasdani connu sous le nom d'lbn Wahsiyya.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 1997
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In the nineteenth century there was probably no single Arabic text that engendered more sustained debate among Orientalist scholars than the magical and agricultural Kitab al-Filaha al-Nabatiyya (Nabatean Agriculture). For the past twenty-five years it has also engaged the attention of Toufic Fahd, who has at last published his critical edition of the text in two large volumes (the general index will appear in a third volume). This is a staggering endeavor, one of those lifetime achievements that deservedly needs to be recognized as a major contribution cutting a broad swathe across Arabic studies. Fahd's comment (vol. 1, p. 8) that this edition "represente une somme enorme ...
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