Plague and contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean / edited by Nükhet Varlik.

Date:
[2017]
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Description

"This volume discusses 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. It tackles various questions of historiography and sources, tests new interdisciplinary methodologies, and asks new questions while revisiting older ones. Lastly, it contributes to Ottoman studies, the history of medicine, Mediterranean and European history, as well as global studies on the role of epidemics in history.-- Publisher's website.

Publication/Creation

Kalamazoo ; Bradford : ARC Humanities Press, [2017]

Physical description

xix, 315 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part one. Rethinking historiography and sources. A historiography of epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn -- Scholars, Sufis, and disease : can Muslim religious works offer us novel insights on plagues and epidemics among the medieval and early modern Ottomans? / John J. Curry -- "Oriental plague" or epidemiological Orientalism? : revisiting the plague episteme of the early modern Mediterranean / Nükhet Varlık -- Part two. Diseases in context. A model disaster : from the great Ottoman panzootic to the cattle plagues of early modern Europe / Sam White -- Veterinary medicine in nineteenth-century Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Smallpox in the harem : communicable diseases and the Ottoman fear of dynastic extinction during the early sultanate of Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) / Günhan Börekçi -- Epilepsy as a "contagious" disease in the late medieval and early modern Ottoman world / Özgen Felek -- Part three. Responses to epidemic diseases. Religion and Ottoman society's responses to epidemics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Yaron Ayalon -- Plague in eighteenth-century Cairo : in search of burial and memorial sites / Edna Bonhomme -- Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide? : society, state, and epidemic diseases in the early nineteenth-century Ottoman Balkans / Andrew Robarts -- Cholera, pilgrimage, and international politics of sanitation : the quarantine station on the island of Kamaran / Gülden Sarıyıldız and Oya Dağlar Macar.

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    History of Medicine
    FF.AH.33
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  • 9781942401155
  • 1942401159