What Was the Extent of Wine Consumption in the Pre-Modern Islamic World?

As Franz Rosenthal aptly put it (quoting, IIRC, Ignaz Goldziher), Islamic medieval literature was a constant rebellion against dominant religious norms. While there is some exaggeration in this, it is interesting to note how ubiquitous praise of wine was in Arabic and Persian literature, despite the overwhelming religious consensus on strict prohibition that @John7755 يوحنا describes. (The other prominent topic of literary rebellion was of course extramarital, often homoerotic, love, which is equally a grave sin in Islamic doctrine; and it is very common to see wine and illicit love celebrated together in literature). This rebellion is partly a codified trope, so I suspect that actual wine consuption, while clearly significant, was somewhat less widespread that literary wine-praising would suggest if taken at face-value.
 
Don't know if this is true or not but I once read that during the Almoravid rule of southern Iberia the Muslims from Morocco viewed their counterparts from Al-Andalus with contempt viewing them has irreversible drunks. Probably an exaggeration but it does indicates that drinking in Al-Andalus had never been a problem.
 
Don't know if this is true or not but I once read that during the Almoravid rule of southern Iberia the Muslims from Morocco viewed their counterparts from Al-Andalus with contempt viewing them has irreversible drunks. Probably an exaggeration but it does indicates that drinking in Al-Andalus had never been a problem.

It was certainly fairly common although officially frowned upon.
 
Don't know if this is true or not but I once read that during the Almoravid rule of southern Iberia the Muslims from Morocco viewed their counterparts from Al-Andalus with contempt viewing them has irreversible drunks. Probably an exaggeration but it does indicates that drinking in Al-Andalus had never been a problem.
It's the usual narrative between peoples from the Bled el-Siba and Arabo-Islamic emirates in Islamic West (altough you certainly have an equivalent among Beduin Arabia). Part of the opposition to the coastal or peninsular state was a percieved decadance (whom the defeats or subservience before Christians were a symptom), and preachers that united the various Berber confederacies clearly abided by this, arguing of the necessity of a more faithful political power and its superiority over decadent polities.

Of course, it never prevented Almoravids to go "native", which feed Alomhad rational for take-over, and so on.
 
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