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

by S. Alavi

Overview

Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates howan 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230554382
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/02/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'...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

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