Islam and Healing Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradit
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 an
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Islam and Healing Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900 Seem a Alavi
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DOl 10.1057/9780230583771 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alavi, Seema. islam and healing: loss and recovery of an indo-Muslim medical tradition, 16oo-1900/Seema Alavi. p.cm. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-36391-9 (hardback: alk paper) 1. Medicine, Arab-india-History. 2. Medicine, Greek and Roman-indiaHistory. 3. Medicine - india-History I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Medicine, Unanihistory-india. 2. History, Modern 1601-- India. 3. islam-history-india .. 4 Religion and Medicine - india. WZ 80.5.A8 A472i 2oo8J R605.A583 2008 61O.938-dc22 2008014350
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For my parents Roshan and Shariq Alavi
Contents Preface and Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION
1 INDO-MuSLIM MEDICINE: UNANI IN PRE-MODERN INDIA Unani and the Dar aI-Islam: Eighth-Fifteenth Centuries
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U nani in India
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New Medical Learning in Arabic: Unani in Eighteenth-century India
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2 ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST: THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY
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Introduction The Calcutta Madrasa
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