Scent from the Garden of Paradise : : musk and the Medieval Islamic world / / by Anya H. King.
Since antiquity, musk has been a valued perfume and medicine. Because the musk deer only lives in Central Eurasia, people in other locations had to trade for its musk. For medieval Islamic civilization, musk became the most important of all aromatics. The musk trade thus illuminates the nature of me...
Saved in:
| : | |
|---|---|
| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic History and Civilization
140. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (455 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- About Musk and Its Terminology
- Commodities of Further Asia and the Islamic World
- History of Musk and the Musk Trade: From Further Asia to the Near East
- Islamicate Knowledge of Musk and Musk Producing Lands
- The Merchant World and the Musk Trade
- Musk in Daily Life in the Early Medieval Islamic World
- The Symbolic Importance of Musk in Islamic Culture
- Conclusion: Worldly and Otherworldly
- Bibliography
- Indices.