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Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World - Hardcover

Matthee, Rudi

 
9781787388154: Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1787388158 ISBN 13: 9781787388154
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess―whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking’s many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to ‘hypocrisy’ or the temptations of ‘forbidden fruit’. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its ‘absence’ as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith―from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdoğan’s Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan―he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God―the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources in multiple languages, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.

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Rudi Matthee is the John A. Munroe and Dorothy L. Munroe Chair of History at the University of Delaware. He is the author of four prize-winning monographs on Iranian history, and the editor or co-editor of another six books. He is currently President of the Persian Heritage Foundation.

 

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Verlag
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1787388158
ISBN 13 
9781787388154
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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