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Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean - Nükhet Varlik

Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean

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Buch | Hardcover
335 Seiten
2017 | New edition
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-942401-15-5 (ISBN)
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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.
Over the last decade or two, the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic
studies has witnessed the convergence of new perspectives on the history
of epidemic diseases. A growing body of scholarship enables us to
explore connections between Middle Eastern studies and the histories of
medicine and health. This study serves as testimony that the field has
reached a certain level of maturity. Contributors to the volume tackle
various questions of historiography and sources, test new
interdisciplinary methodologies, and ask new questions while revisiting
older ones. Essays in the volume discuss 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.



The 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.

Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and specializes in the early modern history of medicine and health in the Mediterranean world.

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



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



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



Bibliography



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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Black Sea World
Zusatzinfo 9 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Studium 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) Rechtsmedizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-942401-15-9 / 1942401159
ISBN-13 978-1-942401-15-5 / 9781942401155
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