Muslim Midwives

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2015

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781316189368
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Avner Giladi
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family, Religion and Spirituality, Medicine
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