Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES -- PART ONE RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES / Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri -- SCHOLARS, SUFIS, AND DISEASE: CAN MUSLIM RELIGIOUS WORKS OFFER US NOVEL INSIGHTS ON PLAGUES AND EPIDEMICS...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES -- PART ONE RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES / Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri -- SCHOLARS, SUFIS, AND DISEASE: CAN MUSLIM RELIGIOUS WORKS OFFER US NOVEL INSIGHTS ON PLAGUES AND EPIDEMICS AMONG THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN OTTOMANS? / Curry, John J. -- “ORIENTAL PLAGUE” OR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ORIENTALISM? REVISITING THE PLAGUE EPISTEME OF THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN / Varlik, Nükhet -- PART TWO. DISEASES IN CONTEXT -- A MODEL DISASTER: FROM THE GREAT OTTOMAN PANZOOTIC TO THE CATTLE PLAGUES OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE / White, Sam -- VETERINARY MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH‑CENTURY EGYPT / Mikhail, Alan -- SMALLPOX IN THE HAREM: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND THE OTTOMAN FEAR OF DYNASTIC EXTINCTION DURING THE EARLY SULTANATE OF AHMED I (R. 1603–17) / Börekçi, Günhan -- EPILEPSY AS A “CONTAGIOUS” DISEASE IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN OTTOMAN WORLD / Felek, Özgen -- PART THREE. RESPONSES TO EPIDEMIC DISEASES -- RELIGION AND OTTOMAN SOCIETY’S RESPONSES TO EPIDEMICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES / Ayalon, Yaron -- PLAGUE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CAIRO: IN SEARCH OF BURIAL AND MEMORIAL SITES / Bonhomme, Edna -- NOWHERE TO RUN TO, NOWHERE TO HIDE? SOCIETY, STATE, AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN BALKANS / Robarts, Andrew -- CHOLERA, PILGRIMAGE, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF SANITATION: THE QUARANTINE STATION ON THE ISLAND OF KAMARAN / Sariyildiz, Gülden / Macar, Oya Dağlar -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Ausführliche Beschreibung