[PDF.22gd] God's Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature

God's Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature

[PDF.nm93] God's Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature

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 | #3636801 in Books |  2000-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .62 x5.57 x8.65l, | File type: PDF | 186 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Innovative and illuminating|By A Customer|This innovative book illuminates both culinary and literary history. Van Gelder surveys the ways food appears in classical Arabic literature, including pre-Islamic poetry, the Qur'an, Islamic poetry and tales, the Thousand and One Nights, and popular genres such as the adab anthologies and satires. To show how food both forms and reve|About the Author|Geert Jan van Gelder is Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford University and author of numerous books, including The Bad and the Ugly: Attitudes Towards Invective Poetry, Eastward Bound: Dutch Ventures and Adventures in the Middle East, a

Eating and speaking are physically linked by the obvious biological fact that both are concerned with the mouth; thus is formed the first of many connections between food and literature. Arabic culture in particular manifests a special concern for this linkage: the Prophet himself reputedly referred to the Qur'an as "God´s banquet." Geert Jan van Gelder´s God´s Banquet surveys the many and varied ways in which food appears in classical Arabic lit...

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