SC - Islamic alchohol?

[david friedman]

At 9:06 AM -0500 2/29/00, Jeff Gedney wrote:
>The noble Cariadoc hath writ:
>  > So far as recipes are concerned, the nearest thing I know of is the
>  > description of how to make arrack (distilled liquor from sugar cane)
>  > in the _Ain I Akbari_.
>Hmmmm,
>From the juice of the sugar cane...
>This would be an Arabian "rum", then? What is the date of this recipe
>I would be very interested. This would be good to bring onto the
>SCA-Distilling list
>Have you put the recipe in the Miscellany?


Mughal, not Arabic. The date is Akbar's reign, I think late in the 
16th century.

I haven't gone back and checked, but I don't think the passage says 
anything implying that Muslims were making or drinking it--there were 
lots of Hindus, and some Christiand and Jews, in Mughal India.

I haven't put it in the Miscellany. For one thing, I haven't tried doing it.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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