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

Kalamazoo ; Bradford : ARC Humanities Press, [2017]

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

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.