Islam and Healing
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Islam and Healing

Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900

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Islam and Healing

Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900

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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 howan 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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
9780230583771
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface and Acknowledgements
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. 1 INDO-MuSLIM MEDICINE: UNANI IN PRE-MODERN INDIA
  10. 2 ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST: THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY
  11. 3 THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE: PUBLIC WELFARE
  12. 4 DISPENSARIES AND SHIFAKHAANAS IN EARLy-NINETEENTHCENTURY INDIA
  13. 5 DRDU MEDICAL TEXTS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  14. 6 ARGUMENTATIVE HAKIMS: DEBATES IN THE OUDH AKHBAR
  15. 7 FROM]HAWAIN-TOLA TO TAKMIL-UT-TIBB, LUCKNOW
  16. CONCLUSION
  17. Glossary
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index