Muslim Midwives : The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East Paperback / softback
by Avner (University of Haifa, Israel) Giladi
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2018
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- ISBN:9781107646810
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2018
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- ISBN:9781107646810
