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Nawal Nasrallah

Spongers

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Delights from the Garden of Eden
Delights from the Garden of Eden

By Nawal Nasrallah

Published 2019

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It is good manners not to pay a friend a visit at mealtimes. If one did so, one would be looked down upon as an intruding, unwelcome guest. To illustrate this, al-Warraq in his tenth-century cookbook tells an anecdote about the famous Abbasid boon companion Ibn Dihqana (d.891):

Look what happened to Muhammad bin ‘Umar when he was eating with his friends and a sponger (tufayli) intruded upon him. Out of modesty, ‘Umar invited him to join in, at which the tufayli said, ‘Look whom he’s asking!’ (wa liman yuqal), and he instantly swooped down to the table, reciting these verses:

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