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Plague and contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean / edited by Nükhet Varlik.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Black Sea world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Plague.
- Plague--Epidemiology.
- Epidemics--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Epidemics.
- Communicable diseases--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Communicable diseases.
- Health attitudes--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Health attitudes.
- Islamic civilization--History.
- Islamic civilization.
- History.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Plague--history.
- Plague--epidemiology.
- Epidemics--history.
- Communicable Diseases--history.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Islam.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Ottoman Empire.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Medical Subjects:
- Plague--history.
- Plague--epidemiology.
- Epidemics--history.
- Communicable Diseases--history.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Islam.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Ottoman Empire.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 315 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : Rutgers University, [2017]
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Plague and contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean.
- ISBN:
- 9781942401155
- 1942401159
- OCLC:
- 958460886
- Publisher Number:
- 99972586671
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