Plague and contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean
"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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
Arc Humanities Press
[2017]
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| Edición: | New ed |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Black Sea World series. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40555008*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Rethinking Historiography and Sources: A Historiography of Epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean / by 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? / by John J. Curry
- "Oriental Plague" or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the Early Modern Mediterranean / by Nükhet Varlık
- Part II. Diseases in Context: A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe / by Sam White
- Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / by 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) / by Günhan Börekçi
- Epilepsy as a "Contagious Disease" in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World / by Özgen Felek
- Part III. Responses to Epidemic Diseases: Religion and Ottoman Society's Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / by Yaron Ayalon
- Plague in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites / by Edna Bonhomme
- Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide?: Society, State, and Epidemic Diseases in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans / by Andrew Robarts
- Cholera, Pilgrimage, and International Politics of Sanitation: The Quarantine Station on the Island of Kamaran / by Gülden Sarıyıldız and Oya Dağlar Macar.
