TY  - BOOK
AU  - Satō,Tsugitaka
TI  - Sugar in the social life of medieval islam
T2  - Islamic area studies
SN  - 9789004281561
AV  - GT2869 .S28 2015
U1  - 641.3/36 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Boston, Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Sugar
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Islamic empire
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Prologue -- 1 The Origin and Expansion of Sugar Production in the Islamic World -- 2 From Red Sugar to White Sugar: Sugar Production Technology -- 3 On Camels and Ships: Sugar as Commodity -- 4 The Ups and Downs of the Sugar Merchants -- 5 Sugar as Medicine -- 6 Sugar and Power: Festivals and Gifts from Royalty -- 7 Cooking Innovations in Medieval Islam -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam Tsugitaka Sato explores the actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through different aspects of sugar. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources - chronicles, geographies, travel accounts, biographies, medical and pharmacological texts, and more - he describes sugarcane cultivation, sugar production, the sugar trade, and sugar’s use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power. He gives us a new perspective on the history of the Middle East, as well as the history of sugar across the world. This book is a posthumous work by a leading scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in Japan who made many contributions to this field
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004281561
ER  -