S. Alavi

Islam and Healing (eBook, PDF)

Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230583771
• Artikelnr.: 44927812

Autorenporträt

SEEMA ALAVI is Professor at the Department of History and Culture at Jamia Milia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi. She has twice been a Fulbright Fellow as well as a Smuts Fellow at Cambridge University, from where her PhD was revised and published as The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995). She has co-authored (with Muzaffar Alam) A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The Ijaz-I-Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of A.H. Polier (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001). She has edited The Eighteenth Century in India, Oxford Debates Series (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002). She has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Indo-Muslim Medicine: Unani In Pre-Modern India Encounter With The West: The English East India Company The Practice Of Medicine: Public Welfare Dispensaries And Shifakhaanas In Early Nineteenth-century India Urdu Medical Texts In The Late Nineteenth Century Argumentative Hakims: Debates In The Oudh Akhbar From Jhawain-Tola To Takmil-Ut-Tibb, Lucknow Conclusion

Rezensionen

'...a major contribution to our understanding of colonialism, and indigenous reactions.' Metascience

' The book is very informative [and] what imparts emotion to Alevi's scholarship is her obvious commitment to the fate of this descendant of ancient medicine.' The international Journal of Asian Studies