A historiography of epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn -- Scholars, Sufis, and disease: can Muslim religious works offer us novel insights on plagues and epidemics among the medieval and early modern Ottomans? / John J. Curry -- "Oriental plague" or epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the plague episteme of the early modern Mediterranean / Nukhet Varl♯łk -- A model disaster: from the great Ottoman Panzootic to the cattle plagues of early modern Europe / Sam White -- Veterinary medicine in nineteenth-century Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Smallpox in the harem: communicable diseases and the Ottoman fear of dynastic extinction during the early Sultanate of Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) / Gunhan Borekcʹi -- Epilepsy as a "contagious disease" in the late medieval and early modern Ottoman world / Ozgen Felek -- Religion and Ottoman society's responses to epidemics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Yaron Ayalon -- Plague in eighteenth-century Cairo: in search of burial and memorial sites / Edna Bonhomme -- Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide? Society, state, and epidemic diseases in the early nineteenth-century Ottoman Balkans / Andrew Robarts -- Cholera, pilgrimage, and international politics of sanitation: the quarantine station on the island of Kamaran / Gulden Sar♯ły♯łld♯łz and Oya Daglar Macar.
Summary:
This volume contributes to Ottoman studies, the history of medicine, Mediterranean and European history, as well as global studies on the role of epidemics in history.
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