The Nabataean Agriculture

الفلاحة النبطية

The Nabataean Agriculture — Ibn Wahshiyya's corpus of magic, talismans and Chaldean lore 1

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"Al-Filaha al-Kabir wal-Saghir" (The Large and Small Agriculture) by Ibn Wahshiyya al-Kaldani, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Mukhtar al-Kasbadani, a Sufi from Qasin. 2

Ibn al-Nadim lists among his books on magic and talismans: "Tard al-Shayatin" (Driving Away the Devils), "Al-Sihr al-Kabir" (The Great Magic), "Al-Sihr al-Saghir" (The Small Magic), "Asrar al-Kawakib" (The Secrets of the Stars), "Al-Asnam" (The Idols) and "Al-Qarabin" (The Offerings). His companion Abu Talib al-Zayyat transmitted these books from him. 2

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  1. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
  2. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p. 433
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islam.museum contributors. “The Nabataean Agriculture”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/filaha-nabatiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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