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== Críticas al concepto ==
=== Sobre los cultivos ===
Un reciente estudio de Michael Decker (2009) desafía el concepto de "revolución" como aplicable a la agricultura islámica medieval.<ref name=Decker-191/> Aceptando la importante contribución de las prácticas agrícolas del mundo islámico a la agricultura mundial, argumenta no obstante que "la introducción islámica de técnicas agronómicas y materiales no fue tan amplia, consistente ni profundamente aplicada como el término ''revolución verde'' propone."<ref>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (191)</ref> Entre los dieciocho cultivos que Watson propone como introducidos durante el periodo islámico,<ref name=Decker-187-8>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (187-8): "In support of his thesis, Watson charted the advance of seventeen food crops and one fiber crop that became important over a large area of the Mediterranean world during the first four centuries of Islamic rule (roughly the seventh through eleventh centuries C.E.).</ref> Decker demuestademuestra que tal cosa no puede sostenerse para los cuatro más importantes,<ref name=Decker-191>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (191): "Nothing has been written, however that attacks the central pillar of Watson's thesis, namely the "basket" of plants that is inextricably linked to all other elements of his analysis. This work will therefore assess the place and importance of four crops of the "Islamic Agricultural Revolution" for which there is considerable pre-Islamic evidence in the Mediterranean world."</ref> como son el [[trigo duro]], el [[arroz]], el [[sorgo]] y el [[algodón]].<ref>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (190f., 203ff.)</ref> Aporta pruebas documentales, escritas y arqueológicas, que demuestran cómo esos cultivos eran ampliamente cultivados y consumidos en los imperios romano y sasánida, donde habían constituido una parte integral de la dieta popular antes de la invasión árabe.<ref>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (192-201)</ref> El arroz y el algodón desempeñaron un papel tan importante en la vida económica del imperio sasánida como lo hicieron en el califato abbasí.<ref>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (204f.): "In fact, among the evidence from the Abbasid period (eighth through thirteenth centuries C.E.), the peak of classical Islamic civilizations, barley and wheat dominated the diet, as they had for millennia previously. Rice maintained a similar place in Iraq at the height of the "Green Revolution" as it had under the Sasanians: wheat and barley only are mentioned as taxed crops (and therefore clear staples) in the tax list of Qudāma ibn Ja'far of the tenth century C.E."</ref> La producción de algodón, que ya tenía importancia económica en el Egipto romano y en Persia, se mantuvo poco desarrollado en el Egipto musulmán, quedando restringido a la Persia musulmana.<ref name=Decker-205>Michael Decker: "Plants and Progress: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution", Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 187-206 (205): "In the Roman world, cotton cropping and use in cloth making appears to have been relatively modest and confined to Egypt."</ref>
=== Sobre las técnicas de irrigación ===
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