Pages: 15-19

Abstract

In a major part of the Islamic Iran era due to various reasons, land owning and as a result, agriculture was considered to be the main source of the revenue of the government. Political factor and irrigation can be regarded as the two main factors in prevalence of agriculture. By political factor, we refer to the security and stability of the country for the sake of the trust of the villager and the farmer for working on the land and as a result, providing his own livelihood and the required products of urbanists and payment of the relevant tax and toll. The other significant factor consists of the problem of water and irrigation that even today, without it, the agriculture is not conceivable scientific studies and achievements are mostly evaluated for promotion of the percentage of the productivity of the use of water in irrigation and agriculture. This itself shows the importance of the problem of water in agriculture and providing the livelihood of the country. of course, agriculture has been itself one of the main sources of the national revenue. Meanwhile, important problem in irrigation system has been the system of water distribution which unfortunately have not been considered so much by the historians and itinerary writers.  In the present article, we have sought to shortly discuss the issue of water distribution system and the man who was in charge of it, i.e. water distributor.