Muslim Midwives

The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East

Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Health & Well Being, Medical
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Author: Avner Giladi ISBN: 9781316189368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: December 15, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Avner Giladi
ISBN: 9781316189368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 15, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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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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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