Tell your friends about this item:
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900 S. Alavi
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900
S. Alavi
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.
400 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 2, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230554382 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 154 × 28 mm · 589 g |