The
Arab Agricultural Revolution (also referred to variously as
Medieval Green Revolution,
Muslim Agricultural Revolution,
Islamic Agricultural Revolution or
Islamic Green Revolution) is a term coined by the historian Andrew Watson in a 1974 paper postulating a fundamental transformation in
agriculture from the 8th century to the 13th century in the
Muslim lands. He listed eighteen crops that were widely diffused during the Islamic period, such as
durum wheat,
Asiatic rice,
sorghum, and
cotton.