Insatiable appetite : food as cultural signifier in the Middle East and beyond / edited by Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser, Bilal Orfali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dmitriev, Kirill, 1976- editor.

Hauser, Julia, editor.

Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, editor.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; volume 163.

Islamic history and civilization, studies and texts ; volume 163

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Middle East--History.

Food habits.

Manners and customs.

History.

Middle East--Social life and customs.

Middle East.

Middle East Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 362 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity.

Contents:

Part 1 Food and Social Status

Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity

The Case of Damascene 'Ulama' in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Period p. 11 / Tarek Abu Hussein

Eating Up

Food Consumption and Social Status in Late Ottoman Greater Syria p. 27 / Christian Saßmannshausen

Part 2 Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present

Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer

A Journey with Two Bulbs through the Islamicate World and Its Literature p. 53 / Yasmin Amin

Beyond Halal

The Dos and Don'ts of Syrian Medieval Cookery in a Twelfih-Century Market Inspector Manual p. 84 / Karen Moukheiber

Molecular Halal

Producing, Debating, and Evading Halal Certification in South Africa p. 100 / Shaheed Tayob

Part 3 Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900-1952) p. 121 / Anny Gaul

Food, Body, Society

Al-Shidyaq's Somatic Experience of Nineteenth-Century Communities p. 142 / Christian Junge

Part 4 Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond

The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry Observations on the Poetry of Abu Sakhr al-Hudhali p. 165 / Kirill Dmitriev

Hashish and Food

Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises p. 190 / Danilo Marino

The "Abominable Pig" and the "Mother of All Vices"

Pork, Wine, and the Culinary Clash of Civilizations in the Early Modern Mediterranean p. 214 / Eric Dursteler

Part 5 Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Type

The Discussion of Meat Eating as a Battlefield for Competing Worldviews in Antiquity p. 245 / Pedro Ribeiro Martins

Missionary and Heretic

Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World p. 260 / Kevin Blankinship

A Frugal Crescent

Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse p. 292 / Julia Hauser

Part 6 Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget

Starving, Eating, and Coping in the Syrian Famine of World War I p. 319 / Tylor Brand

Local Histories of International Food Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s

The World Food Programme in the Middle East p. 340 / Lola Wilhelm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004413022

9789004413023

9789004407626

9004407626

OCLC:

1101386635