Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi

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Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin Muḥammad bin al-Karīm 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 only manuscripts survive in Turkey, and "for centuries, it had been the favorite cook-book of the Turks". (Perry 2006)

[edit] 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. ISBN 1-903018-42-0. A new translation.