Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi

Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baghdadi , usually called al-Baghdadi († 1239 AD), is the author of an early Arabic cookbook.

The book of dishes

The book Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (كتاب الطبيخ = The Book of Food) from the time of the Abbasids was written in 1226 and initially contained 160 recipes; 260 more recipes were added later.

The only original manuscript of Al-Baghdadi's book is preserved in the Suleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey. Further recipes were added to the original by Turkish editors at an unknown point in time and titled as Kitâbü'l-Vasfi'l-Et'ime el-Mu'tâde . Two of the three known copies were in the Topkapı Palace Library. In the late 15th century, Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shirwani, the personal physician of Murad II , wrote a Turkish translation and added around 70 other prescriptions. There is a manuscript of this version (MS Oriental 5099) in the British Library in London.

In 1939, the British orientalist Arthur John Arberry wrote an English translation which was published in the magazine "Islamic Culture". This version was translated into modern Turkish and published in 2005.

literature

• Arthur John Arberry : A Baghdad Cookery-Book . In: Islamic Culture 13, 1939.
• Charles Perry (Ed.): A Baghdad Cookery Book . Prospect Books 2006. (Petits Propos Culinaires, Book 79.) ISBN 978-1-90301842-2

Turkish translation by Nazlı Piskin. Kitapyayınevi, Istanbul, 2009.

• Kitab al-Tabikh [The Book of Cookery] by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Katib al-Baghdadi. Reprint of Dawud al-Jalabi edition, published in 1934 by Matba'at Umm al-Rabi'ayn in Mosul, by Fakhri al-Barudi. Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-Jadid, 1964.

Individual evidence

1. ^ A Baghdad Cookery Book
2. ^ Islamic Culture. Vol. 13, 1939. pp. 21-47, 189-214