[Sca-cooks] Middle Eastern Food
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Fri Jan 15 21:22:14 PST 2010
>>>and Afghanistan and Pakistan get added.
>>
>>Yeah, well... Afghanistan makes sense, since it was an important
>>center of Persian culture and arts as part of the Persian Empire.
>>Herat, for example, was home to a particularly important school of
>>Persian miniature painting.
>>
>>Pakistan... well, its relationship is less clear. It might be
>>better connected to Muslim Mughal India, which is strongly Persian
>>influenced, but also strongly influenced by local South Asian
>>non-Muslim cultures.
>>--
>>Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
>>the persona formerly known as Anahita
>
>I think Pakistan gets added to the Middle East culturally because
>Iran conquered Afghanistan under the Timurids (losing it in the
>early 18th Century). Babur, who was the last of the Timurids,
>invaded Northern India from Afghanistan and founded the Mughal
>dynasty. The direct cultural influence in Pakistan is from Persia.
I would have said that the Timurids conquered both Iran and
(eventually) Afghanistan. The conquest of Afghanistan wasn't from
Iran.
--
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list