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The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East
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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.

Author Biography:

Avner Giladi is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Release date Australia
December 15th, 2014
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Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
210
Dimensions
152x229x16
ISBN-13
9781107054219
Product ID
22296390

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