Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam

by Tsugitaka Sato

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.

Genres: History, Islam, Economics

248 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 2014

Reviews

[Alexia · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm currently writing a book review on this. It's shit. It's caca prout prout. We could say that it's just an anthology of sugar with no in depth-analysis. There is no chronological accuracy, nor geographical limitations. It just homogenizes the entire Hisotry of Medieval Muslim Socieities. It's 500 years bitch. A lot happens in a year. Now multiply by 500. Trop useless. So pissed.