{"product_id":"a-baghdad-cookery-book-9781903018422","title":"A Baghdad Cookery Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Perry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Prospect Books (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prospect Books (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46892235948183,"sku":"9781903018422","price":2308.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781903018422.webp?v=1770279904","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-baghdad-cookery-book-9781903018422","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}