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Insatiable appetite : food as cultural signifier in the Middle East and beyond / edited by Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser, Bilal Orfali.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 362 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004409552
- 9004409556
- Publisher Number:
- 99986084777
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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