الأطعمة البديلة في مصر و الشام عصر سلاطين المماليك (648 923هـ 1250 1517م)‎ : صناعة و ممارسات

الملخص EN

This study is aimed to shed light on the ever increasing phenomenon of fake food, the alternatives, in Egypt and the Levant, in the Mamluki Era, considering the economic prospective of cause analyzed of the phenomenon, and highlighting its impact on the societal classes, in which fake food created a sort of classdiscremination.

Not forgetting revealing the dark side, effects, giving and findings of the phenomenon, in addition to the mechanisms with witch this phenomenon became rampant.

In fact, we economically face a rich phenomenon of food system as it had not received many studies.

Thus, this study, by us, is aimed to pose the problems, firstly, addresses the epithelial approach of the phenomenon, which, in turn, makes us wonder:" what is relation connecting fake food and the general economical and political circumstances?" Regarding the societal level, we must ask:" why did all societal classes turn to fake food? How did the authority, in full power, gather to deceive the poor; giving them fake goods? Can we conclude that fake food mechanisms/ the duality of hunger and satiety was included in the societal values once dominated in that era? Was it, medically, useful for hygienic criteria: treatment, cure? Or was it a sort of facing death with death, from which a wide sector of the society, in Egypt and the Levant, suffered in the Mamluki Era? Was it a sort of conspiracy against the poor lives?