Research:2013-01-01/Journal article/lhistoire-du-chanvre-au-maghreb

ResearchJournal article1 January 2013

L'histoire du chanvre au Maghreb

Jamal Bellakhdar

Hespéris-Tamuda

Historical and ethnobotanical survey of cannabis in the Maghreb, covering botany, preparations, the documentary sources from the tenth century and the legal history of the Moroccan cannabis economy. Bellakhdar argues that hemp reached the Maghreb before the tenth century for fibre and seed, on the evidence of Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi. Resin cultivars, he holds, arrived much later, citing Ibn al-Baytar's report of meeting the Indian species only in Egypt. He dates the shift from fibre to resin to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and links it to the flowering of popular mysticism in the Jbala and the Rif. The article documents makhzen attempts to control the trade, from the 1860 Oued Ras indemnity through Hassan I's measures, the 1906 Algeciras transfer to the Régie Marocaine and the dahirs of 1932 and 1954. It also gives a cultivated-area series running from independence to 2009. Covers the whole Maghreb, with roughly a third on Algeria and Tunisia.

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2013-01-01 2026-08-12 L'histoire du chanvre au Maghreb Journal article Jamal Bellakhdar Hespéris-Tamuda 2013 Historical and ethnobotanical survey of cannabis in the Maghreb, covering botany, preparations, the documentary sources from the tenth century and the legal history of the Moroccan cannabis economy. Bellakhdar argues that hemp reached the Maghreb before the tenth century for fibre and seed, on the evidence of Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi. Resin cultivars, he holds, arrived much later, citing Ibn al-Baytar's report of meeting the Indian species only in Egypt. He dates the shift from fibre to resin to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and links it to the flowering of popular mysticism in the Jbala and the Rif. The article documents makhzen attempts to control the trade, from the 1860 Oued Ras indemnity through Hassan I's measures, the 1906 Algeciras transfer to the Régie Marocaine and the dahirs of 1932 and 1954. It also gives a cultivated-area series running from independence to 2009. Covers the whole Maghreb, with roughly a third on Algeria and Tunisia. Morocco