Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting

Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting

Edited with text by Linda Komaroff. Foreword by Michael Govan. Text by Sinem Arcak Casale, Touraj Daryaee, Ashley Dimmig, Maryam Ekhtiar, Farshid Emami, Jessica Hallett, Katherine E. Kasdorf, Deborah L. Krohn, Zoe S. Kwok, Paulina B. Lewicka, Daniel Newman, Charles Perry, Helen Pfeifer, Amir Hosein Pourjavady, Hedda Reindl-Kiel, et al.

The spirit of feasting in Islamic lands as seen in art and material culture

This catalog represents the first occasion that the burgeoning knowledge of food culture in this period has been employed to inform our understanding of Islamic art. Dining with the Sultan offers a pan-Islamic reach, spanning the 8th through 19th centuries and including some 200 works of art representing a rich variety of mediums. Across its 400 pages, and through an abundance of color plates and new scholarship,...

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