Muslim Midwives

Muslim Midwives
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781316194898
ISBN-13 : 1316194892
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Book Synopsis Muslim Midwives by : Avner Giladi

Download or read book Muslim Midwives written by Avner Giladi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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