Over the last decade or two, the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies has witnessed the convergence of new perspectives on the history of epidemic diseases. A growing body of scholarship enables us to explore connections between Middle Eastern studies and the histories of medicine and health. This study serves as testimony that the field has reached a certain level of maturity. Contributors to the volume tackle various questions of historiography and sources, test new interdisciplinary methodologies, and ask new questions while revisiting older ones. Essays in the volume discuss diseases that affected human and non-human populations in areas stretching from the Red Sea and Egypt to Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Black Sea, in the early modern and modern eras.
The volume contributes to Ottoman studies, the history of medicine, Mediterranean and European history, as well as global studies on the role of epidemics in history.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2017
Copyrightjahr
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-942401-15-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-942401-16-2
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Black Sea World
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
336
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff
A Historiography of Epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean Kein Zugriff Seiten 3 - 26
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Scholars, Sufis, and Disease: Can Muslim Religious Works Offer Us Novel Insights on Plagues and Epidemics among the Medieval and Early Modern Ottomans? Kein Zugriff Seiten 27 - 56
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“Oriental Plague” or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the Early Modern Mediterranean Kein Zugriff Seiten 57 - 88
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A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe Kein Zugriff Seiten 91 - 116
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Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt Kein Zugriff Seiten 117 - 134
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Smallpox in the Harem: Communicable Diseases and the Ottoman Fear of Dynastic Extinction during the Early Sultanate of Ahmed I (r. 1603–17) Kein Zugriff Seiten 135 - 152
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Epilepsy as a “Contagious” Disease in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World Kein Zugriff Seiten 153 - 176
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Religion and Ottoman Society’s Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Kein Zugriff Seiten 179 - 198
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Plague in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites Kein Zugriff Seiten 199 - 220
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Nowhere to Run To, Nowhere to Hide? Society, State, and Epidemic Diseases in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans Kein Zugriff Seiten 221 - 242
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Cholera, Pilgrimage, and International Politics of Sanitation: The Quarantine Station on the Island of Kamaran Kein Zugriff Seiten 243 - 274
