Konsumpcja piwa w Egipcie i Sudanie
Beer consumption in Egypt and Sudan

A historical outline

Author(s): Maciej Ząbek
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Egypt; Sudan; beer; Islam; history; sorghum; human nature
Summary/Abstract: This article is a synthetic history of the production and consumption of beer from the earliest times to the present day, using the examples of Egypt and Sudan, two countries in which it probably began and where beers based on traditional, ancient recipes are brewed to this day. It also explains why the tradition of beer drinking did not cease there, despite the adoption by the people of these countries of Islam and the Arab identity or the onset of modern governments of the so-called Islamic modernists. In conclusion, a postulate is made to return to the, nowadays problematic, concept of “human nature”.

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