Muslim Midwives : The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East

Name: Muslim Midwives
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107054219
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9781107054219

by Avner Giladi

Book Details

Format Hardback

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 history History of medicine Midwifery Middle 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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