Olive oil was a significant commodity in 16th century Seville, exported to "all the Kingdom, to the Indies, and to so many other parts of the world." Asharaf was one of its richest olive growing regions. There is evidence of speculators buying large quantities of "the oil of Axarafe", and "the wine and oil of Axarafe" are listed among the goods purchased by monopolists to export to the Indies.[2]
19th century literatureedit
In a translation of Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari by 19th century scholar Pascual de Gayangos y Arce, the author claims "much has been said of the land of Asharaf by various authors". The following description of the land of Asharaf is given by the author:[3]
"It surpasses in beauty and fertility every other spot on the face on the earth; that the oil of its olives is exported as far as Alexandria; that its hamlets and villages are much superior to those of other countries in the extent and commodiousness, and the fine design and ornament, of their houses, which from the continual white-washing, look like so many stars in a sky of olive trees."
"Seville is a young bride, her husand is 'Abbab; Her diadem is Asharaf; her necklace Guadakquivir Asharaf is a forest without wild beasts, Guadalquivir, a river without crocodiles."
Referencesedit
^E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. Brill. 1993. ISBN9789004097896.
^Pike, Ruth (1961). "Seville in the Sixteenth Century". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 41 (1): 1–30. doi:10.1215/00182168-41.1.1.
^ abThe History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain, Volume 1. 1840.
^Urquhart, David (1850). The Pillars of Hercules; Or, A Narrative of Travels in Spain Volume 2.
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