Mavīzāb and Fuqqāʿ: An Ilkhanid-Period Dispute as Evidence in the Sphero-Conical Vessels Debate
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Abstract
The monolithic designation of “sphero-conical vessels,” chosen to circumvent the long-standing modern debate around the function of these objects, does not satisfy the multiplicity of terms and uses that they had in the past. A munāẓara (disputation) by Zangi al-Bukhari titled “Dispute between the mavīzāb and the fuqqāʿ of the Iranians” (presented here in full translation) provides new insight into one such use, while also expanding our understanding of everyday life in late thirteenth–early fourteenth-century Baghdad.
Drawing from this Persian work and from Arabic medieval cookery books, this essay connects the physical qualities of drinks and associated etiquettes of consumption to the materiality of surviving objects. Still raisin drinks were ladled from large metal bowls into smaller ones. Earthenware sphero-conical vessels, perhaps a group among those resembling pinecones, were used individually, to gulp down the foam of effervescent drinks.
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Mavīzāb and Fuqqāʿ: An Ilkhanid-Period Dispute as Evidence in the Sphero-Conical Vessels Debate
In: Muqarnas OnlineSearch for other papers by Martina Rugiadi in
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Abstract
The monolithic designation of “sphero-conical vessels,” chosen to circumvent the long-standing modern debate around the function of these objects, does not satisfy the multiplicity of terms and uses that they had in the past. A munāẓara (disputation) by Zangi al-Bukhari titled “Dispute between the mavīzāb and the fuqqāʿ of the Iranians” (presented here in full translation) provides new insight into one such use, while also expanding our understanding of everyday life in late thirteenth–early fourteenth-century Baghdad.
Drawing from this Persian work and from Arabic medieval cookery books, this essay connects the physical qualities of drinks and associated etiquettes of consumption to the materiality of surviving objects. Still raisin drinks were ladled from large metal bowls into smaller ones. Earthenware sphero-conical vessels, perhaps a group among those resembling pinecones, were used individually, to gulp down the foam of effervescent drinks.
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