Who wrote the 10th-century cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh?

Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq wrote the 10th-century cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh.

The work, whose title means “The Book of Dishes,” is the oldest surviving Arabic cookbook and was compiled in Baghdad during the 10th century. It contains more than 600 recipes arranged in 132 chapters, covering dishes, ingredients, cooking methods, diet, and table culture.

Al-Warraq appears to have compiled earlier culinary material, including recipes associated with the Abbasid courts of the 8th and 9th centuries. The book therefore preserves much older food traditions, even though its surviving compilation dates from the 10th century. Some scholars have suggested it may have been prepared for the Hamdanid prince Sayf al-Dawla.

The name can cause confusion because another Kitab al-Tabikh was written in 1226 by Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi. That later cookbook is a different work; the 10th-century book in this question is specifically associated with Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq.