Note 709 — Chapter IV · POULTRY, FRUIT, WINE, ETC.
Reading edition
The cultivation of the vine appears to have flourished in Egypt down to the reign of the Caliph Beamrillah, who commanded all the vineyards both in the valley of the Nile and in Syria to be utterly destroyed. Maured Allatafet Jemaleddini, p. 7.