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Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food [Pehme köide]

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Considers how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are keenly aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the most out of texts as well as enabling the reader to enjoy a panorama of medieval Arabo-Islamic culture from a most unexpected, yet immediately appreciable, perspective.

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'A concise, erudite and attractively written study ... Van Gelder's adab-like comilation about adab has the merit of its forebears in being both highly entertaining and instructive, and thus of benefit to both specialists and general readers interested in the history and literary portrayal of food. It is a rich mine of information and constitutes, behind an appearance of light-heartedness and ease, an academic tour-de-force.' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society

Preface vii
Chapter I Introduction
1(6)
Chapter II Early Poetry: Feeding as Good Breeding
7(15)
1 Food and Glory
7(5)
2 The Qasida or `Ode'
12(7)
3 The Qitca or Short Poem
19(3)
Chapter III Eating and the New Ethos
22(17)
1 From Generously Abstaining to Pious Abstinence
22(12)
2 Satiety and Sin
34(5)
Chapter IV Adab, or the Text as a Banquet
39(41)
1 Adab Anthologies
39(9)
2 Dishes and Discourse: Food in Narrative and Poetry
48(26)
3 Food and Filth in al-Azdi's A Day in the Life of Abu l-Qasim
74(6)
Chapter V Food for Satire and Parody
80(29)
1 Cacophagy
80(10)
2 Ibn Sudun's Sweet Nothings
90(6)
3 Warring Edibles, High and Low: Ibn al-Hajjar's Delectable War
96(3)
4 From Faludhaj to Ful: Different Food for Different People
99(3)
5 Peasant Fare: al-Shirbini's The Nodding Noddles
102(7)
Chapter VI Alimentary Metaphors
109(17)
1 Two Good Things: Food and Sex
109(9)
2 Dreams Sweet and Savoury
118(3)
3 Texts and Tastes
121(5)
Notes 126(30)
Bibliography 156(14)
Index 170
Geert Jan van Gelder