Agriculture and landholding System during the Umayyad priod

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

hamidreza motahari ¹ , sadrolloh esmaeilzadeh ²

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Received: 2016-09-05 Accepted : 2016-11-24 Published : 2016-11-21

Keywords: tax, Umayyad, Keywords: Agriculture, Land-holding, Land tenancy,

Abstract :

Agriculture, as the main way of attaining nutrition for humankind has been always regarded highly by different societies and governments. Umayyad dynasty also realized the great benefits of agriculture and its crucial role in their economic structure. After stabilizing their rule, Umayyad caliphs made efforts to improve the conditions of agriculture and farming. The present paper will answer the raised question here: What were the policies of Umayyads in the aspect of agriculture and land-holding system? In order to answer the question, different types of land-holding system of Umayyads and their actions on expansion of agriculture in Iraq and Sham are analyzed in this paper. The finding represent Umayyads earn huge income through taxes on land-holding and agricultural products and they exercised different types of land-holding systems. These actions led to preparation of situations for expansion and improvement of agriculture, damns, streams, qanats as well as lands measuring and land tenancy.