Nawal Nasrallah - Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens_ Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook-BRILL (2007)

introduction
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CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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INTRODUCTION
Part One
I. Discovery of Kit§b al-•abÊÕ9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. The Istanbul Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
III. Ibn Sayy§r al-Warr§q and Kit§b al-•abÊÕ9 . . . . . . . . . . . 10
IV. Sources of Kit§b al-•abÊÕ9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
V. Legacy of Kit§b al-•abÊÕ9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Part Two
VI. Medieval Baghdad and Food Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
VII. The Abbasid Baghdadi Cuisine as Manifested in
Kit§b al-•abÊÕ9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
VIII. Beginnings of the Abbasid Baghdadi Cuisine . . . . . . . . 45
Part Three
IX. The Medieval Galenic Humoral Theory and the
. 55 . . . . . ‏(إصلاح الأغذية)‏ Concept of Remedying Food
The Book of Cookery الطبيخ)‏ ‏(كتاب by Ibn Sayy§r al-Warr§q . . . 65
Appendix: People and Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Plates
Glossary
Arabic-English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
English-Arabic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805
Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843
Indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850