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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varlik, Nükhet, Author.

Contributor:

Varlik, Nükhet, editor.

Series:

Black Sea world.

Black Sea world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plague--History.

Plague.

Plague--Epidemiology.

Epidemics--History.

Epidemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, UK : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book 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. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES

PART ONE RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES / Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri

SCHOLARS, SUFIS, AND DISEASE: CAN MUSLIM RELIGIOUS WORKS OFFER US NOVEL INSIGHTS ON PLAGUES AND EPIDEMICS AMONG THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN OTTOMANS? / Curry, John J.

"ORIENTAL PLAGUE" OR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ORIENTALISM? REVISITING THE PLAGUE EPISTEME OF THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN / Varlik, Nükhet

PART TWO. DISEASES IN CONTEXT

A MODEL DISASTER: FROM THE GREAT OTTOMAN PANZOOTIC TO THE CATTLE PLAGUES OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE / White, Sam

VETERINARY MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH‑CENTURY EGYPT / Mikhail, Alan

SMALLPOX IN THE HAREM: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND THE OTTOMAN FEAR OF DYNASTIC EXTINCTION DURING THE EARLY SULTANATE OF AHMED I (R. 1603-17) / Börekçi, Günhan

EPILEPSY AS A "CONTAGIOUS" DISEASE IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN OTTOMAN WORLD / Felek, Özgen

PART THREE. RESPONSES TO EPIDEMIC DISEASES

RELIGION AND OTTOMAN SOCIETY'S RESPONSES TO EPIDEMICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES / Ayalon, Yaron

PLAGUE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CAIRO: IN SEARCH OF BURIAL AND MEMORIAL SITES / Bonhomme, Edna

NOWHERE TO RUN TO, NOWHERE TO HIDE? SOCIETY, STATE, AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN BALKANS / Robarts, Andrew

CHOLERA, PILGRIMAGE, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF SANITATION: THE QUARANTINE STATION ON THE ISLAND OF KAMARAN / Sariyildiz, Gülden / Macar, Oya Dağlar

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64189-943-3

1-942401-16-7

OCLC:

1012852039