Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-4659-3 (ISBN)
Key Features: *Studies the premodern ways in which plague was viewed by Ottoman Islamic thinkers *Traces the eventual Ottoman acceptance of quarantines and other modern medical reforms *Analyses international debates over plagues and quarantines as a struggle about colonialism and national sovereignty Keywords: plague; quarantines; Ottoman Empire; Islam; state formation; print culture
Dr Birsen Bulmus is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Appalachian State University. Her academic research fields are the history of medicine, Ottoman history, and the history of the Islamic world. This book is an expanded version of her dissertation she submitted at Georgetown University in May 2008. She extensively utilized Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, English and French primary sources in order to complete this project.
Chapter 1. Preliminary Remarks; Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought; Chapter 3. Plague & Ottoman Medical Thought; Chapter 4. Magic & Plague in the Ottoman Empire; Chapter 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman & the Ottoman Quarantine Reform; Chapter 6. Plague & Quarantines in the Colonial Era; Chapter 7. Plague, Sanitary Administration, and the End of Empire; Chapter 8. Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2012 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 black and white illustration |
Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 469 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7486-4659-0 / 0748646590 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7486-4659-3 / 9780748646593 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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