Author: Gelder, Geert Jan van
Title: God's Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, (2000). orig.boards. 22x14cm, vii,178 pp. Minor rubbing. Binding corner bumps. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Early Poetry: Feeding as Good Breeding: Food & Glory; The Qasida or 'Ode'; The Qit'a or Short Poem; Eating & the New Ethos: From Generously Abstaining to Pious Abstinence; Satiety & Sin; Adab, or the Text as a Banquet: Adab Anthologies; Dishes & Discourse: Food in Narrative & Poetry; Food for Satire & Parody: Cacophagy; Ibn Sudun's Sweet Nothings; Warring Edibles, High & Low: Ibn al-Hajjar's 'Delectable War'; From Faludhaj to Ful: Different Food for Different People; Peasant Fare: Al-Shirbini's 'The Nodding Noddles'; Alimentary Metaphors: Two Good Things: Food & Sex; Dreams Sweet & Savoury; Texts & Tastes.

Keywords: Classical Arabic Literature, Culinary Food Foods, Cooking Cook, Social History, Literary Criticism, Poetry Poetics, Philology, ,