| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Islamic views on birth and motherhood -- Midwifery as a craft -- The subordinate midwife : male physicians versus female midwives -- The absent midwife -- The privileged midwife -- Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam -- Middle East.
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Islam. |
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Middle East. |
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Midwifery -- Middle East.
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Midwifery. |
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Rites and ceremonies -- Middle East.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Middle Ages.
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Middle Ages. |
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Parturition -- Middle East -- Ethnology.
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Parturition. |
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Ethnology. |
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Middle East. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilʻadi, Avner, 1947- Muslim midwives 9781107054219 (DLC) 2014021013 (OCoLC)880929730 |
| ISBN |
9781316204184 (electronic book) |
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1316204189 (electronic book) |
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9781107286238 (electronic book) |
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1107286239 (electronic book) |
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9781107054219 |
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1107054214 |
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9781107646810 |
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1107646812 |
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