The drying process is an essential step in the postharvest of grains. The objective of this research was to study the drying kinetics of chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.), by introducing a new approach to simplify the Fick equation. Drying temperatures of 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80 C were used in a hot air convective dryer to dry thin-layers of chickpeas. The mathematical models (Fick, modified Henderson & Pabis, modi