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Geert Jan van Gelder.
Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food.

Published Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000.
Series: Curzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures.
ISBN 0700711740;
ISBN-13: 9780700711741.
Binding: hardback, Perfect bound.
Printer: TJ International, Padstow.
Size: 143x221x19mm.
Page count: vii,178pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is a little scuffed, with some wrinkling on its back panel; pages starting to yellow a bit with age; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £40.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £110.00]
Weight without packaging: 376g.

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Contents: Early poetry — feeding as good-breeding; Eating & the new ethos; Adab, or the text as a banquet; Food for satire & parody; Alimentary metaphors.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 14pp
Index: yes

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