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Muslim Midwives

Muslim Midwives

Giladi, Avner

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

IslamGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1107054214
ISBN13: 9781107054219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 15 2014
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.30
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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