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Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East

Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East

9781107646810
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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 midwifes 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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Publication date
2018
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
208
Dimensions (mm)
154.00 x 227.00
Weight (g)
326
  • Introduction; 1. Islamic views on birth and motherhood; 2. Midwifery as a craft; 3. The subordinate midwife:: male physicians versus female midwives; 4. The absent midwife; 5. The privileged midwife; 6. Ritual, magic, and the midwifes roles in and outside the birthing place; 7. From traditional to modern midwifery in the Middle East; Concluding remarks.
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