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

Informationen zum Autor Avner Giladi is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Haifa, Israel. Klappentext This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Islamic views on birth and motherhood; 2. Midwifery as a craft; 3. The subordinate midwife: male physicians versus female midwives; 4. The absent midwife; 5. The privileged midwife; 6. Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place; 7. From traditional to modern midwifery in the Middle East; Concluding remarks.

Product details

• Authors: Avner Giladi, Avner (University of Haifa Giladi, Giladi Avner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107646810
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64681-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, History of Medicine, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies: women, Midwifery