Social Life under the Abbasids
Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies 6
Muhammad Manazir Ahsan author Shawkat M Toorawa editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lockwood Press
Publishing:31st Dec '25
£42.50
This title is due to be published on 31st December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Some thirty years have passed since the original publication of M. M. Ahsan's Social Life Under the Abbasids, but it remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries.
Ahsan arranges his material thematically-costume, food, housing, hunting, indoor and outdoor games, and festivities and festivals. Moreover, that arrangement together with the eclectic mix of citations, also give readers a taste of what it is like to browse through the many kinds of adab works that are Ahsan's main sources, including, among numerous others, anecdotal, biographical, culinary, geographical and literary texts.
"an intoxicating miscellany of information about what people wore, ate, and drank, where they lived and what their surroundings looked like, all the more fascinating because of the huge gaps in the surviving material evidence" from the Foreword by Julia Bray
ISBN: 9781937040680
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
300 pages