Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900
- ISBN-10
- 0230583776
- ISBN-13
- 9780230583771
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-09-02
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- S. Alavi
Description
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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