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This monograph is a pioneering study and reconstruction of the food cultures and menu of medieval Cairenes and their daily practices, customs and habits in relation to food and eating, through the analysis of a large corpus of historical texts in Arabic. Paulina B. Lewicka explains what, why and how the inhabitants of medieval Cairo ate, and how food shaped their everyday lives, against the background of several relevant social, political and economic factors and circumstances.
Price: $345.00
Pages: 626
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic History and Civilization
Publication Date:
25 August 2011
ISBN: 9789004194724
Format: Hardcover
"Lewicka undertook a difficult project in this book, but the result is an excellent book on medieval foodways; her synthesis of previous research and her own original research create a convincing portrait of the foodways of medieval Cairo. Indeed, Lewicka's book is a model of how the historical foodways of a culture can be reconstructed, and this makes her book of interest to anyone who works with foodways, historical foodways, or historical folklife studies more generally." – David Elton Gay, in: Journal of Folklore Research, posted on October 15, 2014.
"The study brings us closer to understanding the food and foodstyle of medieval Cairenes, perhaps as one Middle Eastern urban menu case-study that might enable us to examine other communities in the region and assist in comprehending the culinary history of the Middle East to a wider extent." – Limor Yungman, in: Studia Islamica 110, 122-125 (2015).
"..höchst lesenswerte Studie über Speisen und Essgewohnheiten im mamlukenzeitlichen Kairo. [...] ..ein Grundlagenwerk ersten Ranges, das dieses Thema auf vorbildliche Weise erstmalig aufgearbeitet hat...". – Stephan Conermann, in: sehepunkte 15, Nr. 7/8 (2015).
"The study brings us closer to understanding the food and foodstyle of medieval Cairenes, perhaps as one Middle Eastern urban menu case-study that might enable us to examine other communities in the region and assist in comprehending the culinary history of the Middle East to a wider extent." – Limor Yungman, in: Studia Islamica 110, 122-125 (2015).
"..höchst lesenswerte Studie über Speisen und Essgewohnheiten im mamlukenzeitlichen Kairo. [...] ..ein Grundlagenwerk ersten Ranges, das dieses Thema auf vorbildliche Weise erstmalig aufgearbeitet hat...". – Stephan Conermann, in: sehepunkte 15, Nr. 7/8 (2015).
Paulina B. Lewicka, PhD (2000) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Warsaw, is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on various aspects of the cultural and social history of the medieval Middle East and, more particularly, the Mamluk and the early Ottoman period, such as interfaith and gender relations, foodways and the medical cultures of Egypt and Syria, including self-treatment manuals in the Arabic language as sources for the study of the social and cultural contexts of the art of medicine in premodern Egypt.