Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 384 Seiten)
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23 cm
Edition:
2011
ISBN:
9780230583771
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 INDO-MUSLIM MEDICINE: UNANI IN PRE-MODERN INDIA; 2 ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST: THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY; 3 THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE: PUBLIC WELFARE; 4 DISPENSARIES AND SHIFAKHAANAS IN EARLY-NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIA; 5 URDU MEDICAL TEXTS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY; 6 ARGUMENTATIVE HAKIMS: DEBATES IN THE OUDH AKHBAR; 7 FROM JHAWAIN-TOLA TO TAKMIL-UT-TIBB, LUCKNOW; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780239554382
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Alavi, Seema, 1961 - Islam and healing Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0230554385
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230554382
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Theology
Keywords:
Indien
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Muslim
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Medizin
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Geschichte 1600-1900
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Yunani
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Muslim
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Geschichte 1600-1900
