| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization: studies and texts ; volume 163 |
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Islamic history and civilization ; v. 163.
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| Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Food and Social Status -- Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity / Tarek Abu Hussein -- Eating Up / Christian Saßmannshausen -- Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present -- Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer / Yasmin Amin -- Beyond Ḥalāl / Karen Moukheiber -- Molecular Halal / Shaheed Tayob -- Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900-1952) / Anny Gaul -- Food, Body, Society / Christian Junge -- Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond -- The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry / Kirill Dmitriev -- Hashish and Food / Danilo Marino -- The "Abominable Pig" and the "Mother of All Vices" / Eric Dursteler -- Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century -- An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre / Pedro Ribeiro Martins -- Missionary and Heretic / Kevin Blankinship -- A Frugal Crescent / Julia Hauser -- Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget / Tylor Brand -- Local Histories of International Food Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s / Lola Wilhelm -- Back Matter -- Index |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2022) |
| Subject |
Food -- Middle East -- History
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Food -- Mediterranean Region -- History
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Food habits -- Middle East -- History
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Food habits -- Mediterranean Region -- History
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Food -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Food -- Social aspects -- Middle East
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Food -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region
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Diet -- Middle East -- History
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Diet -- Mediterranean Region -- History
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Vegetarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Food supply -- Middle East
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Food supply -- Mediterranean Region
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Diet.
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Food.
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Food habits.
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Food -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Food -- Social aspects.
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Food supply.
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Manners and customs.
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Vegetarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Nahrung
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Kulturelle Identität
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Middle East -- Social life and customs
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Mediterranean Region -- Social life and customs
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Mediterranean Region.
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Middle East.
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Nordafrika
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Naher Osten
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dmitriev, Kirill, 1976- editor.
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Hauser, Julia, editor.
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Urfahʹlī, Bilāl, editor.
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Brill Academic Publishers.
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| LC no. |
2019032843 |
| ISBN |
9789004409552 |
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9004409556 |
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