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Food Culture and Health in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies: 3
Author(s): David Waines (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 308 pages
- ISBN-10: 900419441X
- ISBN-13: 9789004194410
Book Description
This book brings together edited articles from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam that are relevant to food culture, health, diet, and medicine in pre-Islamic Muslim societies.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
David Waines is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies, Lancaster University in England. He has also held teaching or research posts in Canada, Egypt, Spain and the Netherlands. He is the editor of Patterns of Everyday Life (London, 2002), and the author of Introduction to Islam (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2003), and Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer (London, 2010). He has also written and lectured on the medieval Arabic culinary and dietetic traditions as well as on Islam in the contemporary world.
