IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 220: Food, Feasting, and Famine in the Islamic World, I
Monday 4 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
Paper 220-a | Digestifs and Dutch Courage in the Age of Muslim Empire: Sunni-Hanafi Jurists on the Permissibility of Drinking Alcohol (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Law, Theology |
Paper 220-b | Local Delicacies and Regional Pride in the Islamic World, c. 800-1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
Abstract | This is the first of two sessions on aspects of Food, Feasting, and Famine across the Islamic World, covering a wide time span. Here the speakers show how what was eaten - and drunk - served to define both the legal and the geographical identity of the consumer. |