Al-Tighnari wrote a work on agronomy, Zuhrat al-Bustān wa-Nuzhat al-Adhhān (Arabic: زهرة البستان ونزهة الأذهان, lit. 'The Glory of the Garden and Recreation of the Minds') in 1100. It was dedicated to the Almoravid governor of Granada, Abu Tahir Tamim ibn Yusuf Ibn Tashufin. The original text had 12 books and 360 chapters, but only an incomplete version is known today.