Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean (eBook)

Nukhet Varlik is Assistant 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 Nukhet Varlik 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 Gunhan Borekci Epilepsy as a Contagious Disease in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World by Ozgen Felek III. Responses to Epidemic Diseases Religion and Ottoman Society's Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Yaron Ayalon The Bubonic Plague In Search of Burial Sites and Memorial Sites in Eighteenth-Century Cairo 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 Gulden Sariyildiz and Oya Daglar Macar Bibliography Index