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Giladi

Muslim Midwives

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-107-05421-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2015
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781107054219
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-107-05421-9
  • Verlag: Cambridge University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2015
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2015
  • Serie: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 499 g
  • Seiten: 200
  • Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 17 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Avner Giladi is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

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.