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

By Seema Alavi

Book Overview

Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230554385
• ISBN13: 9780230554382
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.6"