Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam

By: Sato, Tsugitaka

In Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam Tsugitaka Sato explores the actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through different aspects of sugar. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources - chronicles, geographies, travel accounts, biographies, medical and pharmacological texts, and more - he describes sugarcane cultivation, sugar production, the sugar trade, and sugar's use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power. He gives us a new perspective on the history of the Middle East, as well as the history of sugar across the world.
This book is a posthumous work by a leading scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in Japan who made many contributions to this field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004277528
• ISBN13: 9789004277526
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"