Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean

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



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