 The first Arabic book on agronomy to reach al-Andalus, in the 10th century, was Ibn Wahshiyya's "al-Filahat al-nabatiyya" (Nabatean Agriculture), from Iraq; it was followed by texts written in al-Andalus, such as the "Mukhtasar kitab al-filaha" (Abridged Book of Agriculture) by Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) from Cordoba, around 1000 AD.The eleventh century agronomist Ibn Bassal of Toledo described 177 species in his "Dīwān al-filāha" (The Court of Agriculture).Ibn Bassal had travelled widely across the Islamic world, returning with a detailed knowledge of agronomy.