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Title: | Unity and Variety of Land Tenure and Cultivation Patterns in the Medieval Maghreb |
Author: | Shatzmiller, Maya |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Maghreb Review |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Period: | January-April |
Pages: | 24-28 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Maghreb |
Subjects: | Islamic law land tenure agricultural history Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | The funtioning of the agrarian patterns in the medieval Maghreb can be described as a co-existence of varieties within an overall unified system. That is, although the major patterns were common, the system, sometimes willingly, sometimes reluctantly, allowed a certain amount of variation to exist. The author briefly comments on the unity, variety, and impact on the social and political situation of different elements of the agrarian system such as land tenure patterns, land taxes, and cultivation, using material collected primarily for late medieval Morocco together with information available on Ifriqiya, the only North African region at present to have benefited from a continuity of research into the economic aspects of its medieval existence. Notes. |