{"product_id":"a-baghdad-cookery-book-9781903018422","title":"A Baghdad Cookery Book","description":"This is a translation of the \u003ci\u003eKitab al Tabikh\u003c\/i\u003e, composed by a thirteenth-century scribe we usually call al-Baghdadi. It was long the only medieval Arabic cookery book known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A.J.Arberry's path-breaking 1939 translation as 'A Baghdad Cookery Book' (reissued by Prospect Books in 2001 in \u003ci\u003eMedieval Arab Cookery\u003c\/i\u003e). For centuries, it had been the favourite Arabic cookery book of the Turks. The original manuscript, formerly held in the library of the Aya Sofya Mosque, is still in Istanbul; it is now MS Ayasofya 3710 in the Suleymaniye Library. At some point a Turkish sultan commissioned very a handsome copy, now MS Oriental 5099 in the British Library in London. At a still later time, a total of about 260 recipes were added to Kitab al Tabikh's original 160 and the expanded edition was retitled Kitab Wasf al-Atima al-Mutada (Charles Perry's translation of it also appears in \u003ci\u003eMedieval Arab Cookery\u003c\/i\u003e); three currently known copies of K.Wasf survive, all in Turkey - two of them in the library of the Topkapi Palace, showing the Turks' high regard for this book. Finally, in the late fifteenth century Sirvani made a Turkish translation of Kitab al Tabikh, to which he added some recipes current in his own day, making this the first Turkish-language cookery book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKitâb al Tabîkh, composed by a thirteenth-century scribe we usually call al-Baghdadi, was long the only medieval Arabic cookery book known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A.J.Arberry's path-breaking 1939 translation as 'A Baghdad Cookery Book' (reissued by Prospect Books in 2001 in Medieval Arab Cookery).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prospect Books (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749346345234,"sku":"9781903018422","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a69661d6-8479-48f2-bb0c-f1092324f93d.jpg?v=1764078272","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-baghdad-cookery-book-9781903018422","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}