References and Further Reading

Barceló, M. (2004) “The Missing Water-Mill: A Question of Technological Diffusion in the High Middle Ages,” in M. Barceló and F. Sigaut (eds), The Making of Feudal Agriculture? (Leiden: Brill).

Bloom, J. (2001). Paper before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press).

Glick, T. F. (1995). “Moriscos and Marranos as Agents of Technological Diffusion,” History of Technology, 17: 113–25.

Glick, T. F. (2005). Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages, 2nd edn (Leiden: Brill).

Glick, T. F. and Kirchner, H. (2000). “Hydraulic Systems and Technologies of Islamic Spain: History and Archeology,” in P. Squatriti (ed.), Working with Water in Medieval Europe: Technology and Resource-use (Leiden: Brill), pp. 267–329.

Ibn Khaldun (1958). The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, trans. F. Rosenthal, 3 vols (New York: Pantheon).

Saliba, G. (1985). “The Function of Mechanical Devices in Medieval Islamic Society,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 141–51.

Schioler, T. (1973). Roman and Islamic Water Lifting Wheels (Copenhagen: Odense University Press).

Watson, A. (1983). Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 900–1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

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