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Introduces the history, culture, and cuisine of Samarkand, Central Asia, and Caucasus. Offers recipes from soups to pilafs to drinks and desserts accompanied by instructions and photographs. Interspersed throughout the book are essays from the authors about their travels in the regions. Includes an index.

A biography of eleventh-century Muslim astronomer and scholar Al-Biruni describing his work in mathematics, geography, religion, and the physical sciences.