Anya H King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anya H King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anya H |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Indiana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medieval islamicate aromatherapy
In the medieval Islamic world perfume occupied an important place. Both men and women used scented preparations. Much of our information about perfumery comes from the writings of physicians who both prescribed scented compounds and described their manufacture in formularies. Individual aromatic ingredients and compound perfumes were prized for their purported medicinal properties, described in terms of humoral theory. This aspect of pharmacology…
New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition
Islamic pharmacology included numerous plant-derived substances, especially from South and Southeast Asia, that were unfamiliar in ancient Greek and Roman times. The arrival of these new materia medica is commonly accepted to be a consequence of the expanding horizons of trade in the Islamic period. Closer examination, however, reveals that many of these substances are in fact attested in pre-Islamic times. In addition, the philological evidence …
Gilding Textiles and Printing Blocks in Tenth-Century Egypt
The surviving portion of the tenth-century Egyptian Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Tamīmī's recently edited Ṭīb al-ʿarūs has several formulas relating to the dying and perfuming of textiles. Some refer to the use of carved molds to impress designs upon textiles. Tamīmī's formulas treat in particular the application of gold leaf and perfumed dye pastes with blocks, but presuppose the technology of using blocks to apply designs to textiles and include a voca…
The Merchant World and the Musk Trade
The Symbolic Importance of Musk in Islamic Culture
Conclusion
Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World traces the history of musk from ancient Asia to the early medieval Islamic world and examines the important role musk played in perfumery and medicine in this new context.
About Musk and Its Terminology
Islamicate Knowledge of Musk and Musk Producing Lands
Musk in Daily Life in the Early Medieval Islamic World
Commodities of Further Asia and the Islamic World
Preliminary Material
History of Musk and the Musk Trade
Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World
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 medieval Asian trade and musk's cultural effects on the Islamic world. Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World examines t…
Early Islamic Sources on the Kitan Liao
Early Islamic Sources on the Kitan Liao:The Role of Trade Anya King The power of the Kitan Liao was such that their fame spread across Asia, ultimately reaching into Europe, where their name, transmogrified in English into Cathay, still evokes an image of eastern splendor.1 In this paper, we will trace one aspect of the westward journey of the name of the Kitans, its early transmission into the Islamic world, and the context of the earliest refer…
The Importance of Imported Aromatics in Arabic Culture
Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World
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 medieval Asian trade and musk's cultural effects on the Islamic world. Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World examines t…
New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition
Islamic pharmacology included numerous plant-derived substances, especially from South and Southeast Asia, that were unfamiliar in ancient Greek and Roman times. The arrival of these new materia medica is commonly accepted to be a consequence of the expanding horizons of trade in the Islamic period. Closer examination, however, reveals that many of these substances are in fact attested in pre-Islamic times. In addition, the philological evidence …
Early Islamic Sources on the Kitan Liao
Early Islamic Sources on the Kitan Liao:The Role of Trade Anya King The power of the Kitan Liao was such that their fame spread across Asia, ultimately reaching into Europe, where their name, transmogrified in English into Cathay, still evokes an image of eastern splendor.1 In this paper, we will trace one aspect of the westward journey of the name of the Kitans, its early transmission into the Islamic world, and the context of the earliest refer…
Medieval islamicate aromatherapy
In the medieval Islamic world perfume occupied an important place. Both men and women used scented preparations. Much of our information about perfumery comes from the writings of physicians who both prescribed scented compounds and described their manufacture in formularies. Individual aromatic ingredients and compound perfumes were prized for their purported medicinal properties, described in terms of humoral theory. This aspect of pharmacology…
The Importance of Imported Aromatics in Arabic Culture
Early Islamic Sources on the Kitan Liao
Early Islamic Sources on the Kitan Liao:The Role of Trade Anya King The power of the Kitan Liao was such that their fame spread across Asia, ultimately reaching into Europe, where their name, transmogrified in English into Cathay, still evokes an image of eastern splendor.1 In this paper, we will trace one aspect of the westward journey of the name of the Kitans, its early transmission into the Islamic world, and the context of the earliest refer…
The Merchant World and the Musk Trade
The Symbolic Importance of Musk in Islamic Culture
Conclusion
Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World traces the history of musk from ancient Asia to the early medieval Islamic world and examines the important role musk played in perfumery and medicine in this new context.
About Musk and Its Terminology
Islamicate Knowledge of Musk and Musk Producing Lands
Musk in Daily Life in the Early Medieval Islamic World
Commodities of Further Asia and the Islamic World
Preliminary Material
History of Musk and the Musk Trade
Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World
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 medieval Asian trade and musk's cultural effects on the Islamic world. Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World examines t…
New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition
Islamic pharmacology included numerous plant-derived substances, especially from South and Southeast Asia, that were unfamiliar in ancient Greek and Roman times. The arrival of these new materia medica is commonly accepted to be a consequence of the expanding horizons of trade in the Islamic period. Closer examination, however, reveals that many of these substances are in fact attested in pre-Islamic times. In addition, the philological evidence …
Gilding Textiles and Printing Blocks in Tenth-Century Egypt
The surviving portion of the tenth-century Egyptian Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Tamīmī's recently edited Ṭīb al-ʿarūs has several formulas relating to the dying and perfuming of textiles. Some refer to the use of carved molds to impress designs upon textiles. Tamīmī's formulas treat in particular the application of gold leaf and perfumed dye pastes with blocks, but presuppose the technology of using blocks to apply designs to textiles and include a voca…
Medieval islamicate aromatherapy
In the medieval Islamic world perfume occupied an important place. Both men and women used scented preparations. Much of our information about perfumery comes from the writings of physicians who both prescribed scented compounds and described their manufacture in formularies. Individual aromatic ingredients and compound perfumes were prized for their purported medicinal properties, described in terms of humoral theory. This aspect of pharmacology…
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