TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Anya H.
TI  - Scent from the Garden of Paradise: musk and the Medieval Islamic world 
T2  - Islamic history and civilization
SN  - 9789004336315
AV  - QD331 
U1  - 668/.542 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Musk
KW  - Aromatic compounds
KW  - Perfumes
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Islam and culture
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- About Musk and Its Terminology -- Commodities of Further Asia and the Islamic World -- History of Musk and the Musk Trade: From Further Asia to the Near East -- Islamicate Knowledge of Musk and Musk Producing Lands -- The Merchant World and the Musk Trade -- Musk in Daily Life in the Early Medieval Islamic World -- The Symbolic Importance of Musk in Islamic Culture -- Conclusion: Worldly and Otherworldly -- Bibliography -- Indices; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Since antiquity, musk has been a valued perfume and medicine. Because the musk deer only lives in Central Eurasia, people in other locations had to trade for its musk. For medieval Islamic civilization, musk became the most important of all aromatics. The musk trade thus illuminates the nature of medieval Asian trade and musk's cultural effects on the Islamic world. Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World examines the history of musk from its origins in Asia to its uses in the medieval Middle East, surveys the Islamic literature on musk, and discusses the roles of musk in perfumery and medicine, as well as the symbolic importance of musk in Islam
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004336315
ER  -