Islam and Healing (PDF)
Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von S. Alavi
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. 
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: S. Alavi
- 2008, 2008, 384 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 0230583776
- ISBN-13: 9780230583771
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2008
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'...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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