Muslim Midwives : The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East
by
Avner Giladi
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
ISBN-10
1107054214
ISBN-13
9781107054219
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2014
Print length
210 Pages
Weight
426 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 23.60 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Middle Eastern historyHistory of medicineMidwiferyMiddle Eastern history
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This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. It takes a broad historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period.
This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate between male authority in patriarchal society and female reproductive power within the family. This study also takes a broader historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period and addressing the confrontation between traditional midwifery and Western obstetrics in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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