hist-brewing: "An Arab Mead"

[Bruce R. Gordon]

Greetings
	Yes, that's very likely correct. As I mentioned, the Qu'ran itself says 
very little about the subject, and merely proscribes "khamt", linking it 
to games of chance. Khamt is normally translated as "wine", although I 
have seen translations that say "intoxicants". Specific Muslim 
prohibitions of "grape and grain" occur in Hadith, a body of 
commentaries and expansions of Qu'ranic lore that was written over the 
course of several hundred years.

Bruce R. Gordon

PBLoomis at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/22/01 8:01:10 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> obsidian at raex.com writes:
> 
> Owenbrau at earthlink.net wrote"
> 
>>> The other is based on my rather limited understanding of the Qur'an. As 
>> 
> you
> 
>>  > state, this recipe comes from a medicinal text, and therefore it was
>>  > intended to be drunk for medicinal purposes. The Qur'an bans alcohol made
>>  > from grapes and grains, but not honey. This recipe, however, includes
>>  > grapes, and would therefore be banned for any but medicinal uses.
>>  
>>   Well, not exactly. As I state in the article, the Qu'ran only 
>>  specifically mentions "wine" three times, and never does it specify 
>>  grapes or grain. In fact, I haven't been able to find the words "grape" 
>>  or "barley" (or other grains) in the Qu'ran in ANY context yet. But your 
>>  comment demonstrates what I was attempting to show -- that by defining a 
>>  beverage as "medicine", you place it in a different set of rules than 
>>  those regulating "recreational beverage".
>>  
> 
>     According to one of the Muslim personae at Orluk Oasis at Pennsic
> XXX this summer, the prohibition on fermented grapes comes not from the 
> Qu'ran, but from something the second Caliph quoted Muhammad as 
> having said to him.  
>     In Western jurisprudence, that would be inadmissible hearsay, but 
> in Islam, it counts as second-order canonical.  And who are we to say 
> it's not?  After all, much of the New Testament was written down from 
> verbal accounts several hundred years after the Crucifixion.
>     Scotti
> 
>     "Not all chemicals [in food] are bad.  Hydrogen and oxygen 
> are chemicals which go together to make water, one of the main 
> ingredients in beer."                           -- Dave Barry
> 
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