Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle east / Avner Gilʻadi.

By:

Gilʻadi, Avner, 1947- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781316204184
1316204189
9781107286238
1107286239

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muslim midwivesDDC classification:

618.2009394 23

LOC classification:

RG513

NLM classification:

WQ 11 JA2

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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