Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baghdadi, usually called al-Baghdadi (d. 1239 AD), was the compiler of an early Arab cookbook of the Abbasid period, كتاب الطبيخ Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ (The Book of Dishes), written in 1226. The original book contained 160 recipes, and 260 recipes were later added.
Manuscripts and Turkish translations edit
The only original manuscript of Al-Baghdadi's book survives at Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey, and according to Charles Perry, "for centuries, it had been the favorite cook-book of the Turks". Further recipes had been added to the original by Turkish compilers at an unknown date and retitled as Kitâbü’l-Vasfi’l-Et‘ime el-Mu‘tâde, with two of its known three copies found at the Topkapı Palace Library. Eventually, Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shirwani, the physician of Murad II, prepared a Turkish translation of the book adding around 70 contemporary recipes. This translation was published in modern Turkish in 2005,[1] whereas a modern Turkish translation of the original book (co-edited by Charles Perry) was published in 2009.[2]
See also edit
- Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, author of a 10th-century Arabic cookbook by the same name
References edit
- ^ Yemek kitapları: Moda değil yaşam özeti
- ^ "Kitap Yayınevi'nden üç güzel kitap". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
Bibliography edit
- A.J. Arberry, "A Baghdad cookery-book", Islamic Culture 13 (1939), pp. 21–47 and 189–214. A translation of al-Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ.
- Charles Perry, A Baghdad Cookery Book (Petits Propos Culinaires), Prospect Books, 2006. ISBN 1-903018-42-0. A new translation.
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