IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 722: Banquets and Festivities in Medieval Islam
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Limor Yungman, Spécialité 'Histoire et civilisations', École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Paper 722-a | Meal Festivals in Fatimid Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 722-b | Alimentation carnée et repas de fête dans l'Occident islamique médiéval (Language: Français) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 722-c | Celebration Foods in the Abbasid Court (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | Banquets and feasts for the celebration of convivial occasions and religious holidays are social activities that have always centred on food. The richness, complexity, and variety of foods, mainly meats, poultry, sweets, and candies proposed on the medieval Muslim ruler's table were manifestation of wealth, gastronomic taste, and power. The proposed session will examine this phenomenon of holding banquets in the medieval Islamic context from three different angles, in three case-studies from Abbasid Baghdad, Fatimid Cairo, and Almohad Marrakesh. The papers will show the similarities as well as the differences of festivity practices in medieval Islam. |