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

Alavi, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9781349363919

ISBN-13: 9781349363919

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583771

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 384