Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam - Tsugitaka Sato - Google Books

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In Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam, Tsugitaka Sato explores actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through sugar cultivation, production, and trade, and sugar’s use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power.