Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq
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The Script error: No such module "lang". is the oldest surviving Arabic cookbook, written by al-Warraq in the 10th century. It is compiled from the recipes of the 8th and 9th century courts of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad. Some scholars speculate that al-Warraq may have prepared the manuscript on behalf of a patron, the Hamdanid prince Sayf al-Dawla, who sought to improve the cultural prestige of his own court in Aleppo as the court in Baghdad had started to decline.[3]
Some recipes in the book, like Script error: No such module "lang". (date-sweetened porridge), come from the relatively simple cuisine of the Arabian Peninsula, but the book also contains recipes for fancy stews with Persian names. There is also an entire chapter about Script error: No such module "lang"., hearty stews of 'Nabataean' (Iraqi) origin.[3]
Several partial or full translations in European languages are available:
- Nawal Nasrallah, annotated translation[4]
- Lilia Zaouali, selection of two dozen recipes[3]
- Sabrina Favaro's Italian translation[5]
- David Waines, selection of recipes[6]
See also
- Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi, author of a 13th-century Arabic cookbook by the same name
References
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- ↑ Nawal Nasrallah, translator, Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook, Brill, Leiden 2007. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Sabrina Favaro, Il simposio dei sultani: Dal più antico Trattato di cucina arabo-musulmano, 2015 Template:Isbn
- ↑ David Waines, In a Caliph's Kitchen, 1995 Template:Isbn
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Further reading
- Kaj Öhrnberg and Sahban Mroueh, eds., Kitab al-tabikh Studia orientalia 60, Finnish Oriental Society, 1987. Template:ISBN
- Charles Perry, "Cooking with the Caliphs", Saudi Aramco World 57:4 (July/August 2006) full text Template:Webarchive