Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm al-Baghdādī (; ), usually called simply al-Baghdadi, was the compiler of an early
Arab
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cookbook of the
Abbasid
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period, ''Kitāb 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
The only original manuscript of Al-Baghdadi's book survives at
Süleymaniye Library in
Istanbul
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,
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, 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
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Library. Eventually, Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shirwani, the physician of Sultan
Murad II
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Early life
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, prepared a
Turkish translation of the book adding around 70 contemporary recipes. This translation was published in modern Turkish in 2005, whereas a modern Turkish translation of the original book (co-edited by Charles Perry) was published in 2009.
See also
*
Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq
() was an Arab author from Baghdad. He was the compiler of a tenth-century cookbook, the (, ''The Book of Dishes''). This is the earliest known Arabic cookbook. It contains over 600 recipes, divided into 132 chapters.
The is the oldest survivi ...
, author of a 10th-century Arabic cookbook by the same name
References
Bibliography
*
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. . A new translation.
Iraqi male writers
1239 deaths
Arab cuisine
13th-century Arabic-language writers
13th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Writers from Baghdad
Year of birth unknown
Cookbook writers of the medieval Islamic world
Culture of the Abbasid Caliphate
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