Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean : New Histories of Disease in Ottoman Society.
Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781942401162 (electronic bk.)
9781942401155
9781942401155
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0315
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
©2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (336 pages)
Dizi
Black Sea World Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES -- Miri Shefer-Mossensohn - A Historiography of Epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean -- John J. Curry - Scholars, Sufis, and Disease: Can Muslim Religious Works Offer Us Novel Insights on Plagues and Epidemics among the Medieval and Early Modern Ottomans? -- Nükhet Varlık - “Oriental Plague“ or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the Early Modern Mediterranean -- PART TWO: DISEASES IN CONTEXT -- Sam White - A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe -- Alan Mikhail - Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- Günhan Börekçi - Smallpox in the Harem: Communicable Diseases and the Ottoman Fear of Dynastic Extinction during the Early Sultanate of Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) -- Özgen Felek - Epilepsy as a “Contagious“ Disease in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World -- PART THREE: RESPONSES TO EPIDEMIC DISEASES -- Yaron Ayalon - Religion and Ottoman Society's Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Edna Bonhomme - Plague in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites -- Andrew Robarts - Nowhere to Run To, Nowhere to Hide? Society, State, and Epidemic Diseases in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans -- Gulden Sariyildiz and Oya Daglar Macar-Cholera, Pilgrimage, and International Politics of Sanitation: The Quarantine Station on the Island of Kamaran -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
The first comprehensive volume of articles on plague and other diseases that afflicted humans and animals in the Ottoman Empire--from the Black Death to the fall of the empire.
Konu
Plague-Mediterranean Region-History..
Communicable diseases-Mediterranean Region-History..
Islam-Mediterranean Region-History.
Electronic books.
Communicable diseases-Mediterranean Region-History..
Islam-Mediterranean Region-History.
Electronic books.
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