Social Life Under the Abbasids
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1979
الناشر: مكتبة لبنان ناشرون
نبذة الناشر:Dr Ahsan has derived his material from many sources, some modern but a majority from the original Arabic works of eighth, ninth and tenth centuries AD. The various aspects of daily life and culture are explored and described in astonishing detail. We learn not only how a dish of food ...was prepared but also how it was served, what it looked like, and how some named gourmet received it. we are told how to train a cheetah for hunting, and what indoor and outdoor games were popular among the people and how the Abbasids celebrated their festivals and festivities and what type of house they preferred to acquire and live in. We find that the great Harun al-Rashid played polo with enthusiasm and did not mind being beaten at chess; his diet was not strikingly different from our own, and his costume was much like that seen in parts of the Arab world today.
Along with the various aspects of social life, economic activities of the period have also been carefully investigated. إقرأ المزيد