Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle east /
Gilʻadi, Avner, 1947-
Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle east / Avner Gilʻadi. - 1 online resource - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization . - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Islamic views on birth and motherhood -- Midwifery as a craft -- The subordinate midwife : male physicians versus female midwives -- The absent midwife -- The privileged midwife -- Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place.
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.
9781316204184 1316204189 9781107286238 1107286239
Islam--Middle East.
Midwifery--Middle East.
Rites and ceremonies--Middle East.
Middle Ages.
Parturition--Ethnology.--Middle East
Islam.
Medicine, Medieval.
Islam
Midwifery--history
Ceremonial Behavior
History, Medieval
Parturition--ethnology
Moyen Âge.
Islam.
Médecine médiévale.
Islam.
MEDICAL--Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Rites and ceremonies.
Middle Ages.
Islam.
Midwifery.
Geburtshilfe
Hebamme
Islam
Sozialstatus
Middle East.
Middle East
Moyen-Orient.
Middle East.
Mittlerer Osten
Moyen-Orient.
Electronic books.
RG513
618.2009394
WQ 11 JA2
Muslim midwives : the craft of birthing in the premodern middle east / Avner Gilʻadi. - 1 online resource - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization . - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Islamic views on birth and motherhood -- Midwifery as a craft -- The subordinate midwife : male physicians versus female midwives -- The absent midwife -- The privileged midwife -- Ritual, magic, and the midwife's roles in and outside the birthing place.
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.
9781316204184 1316204189 9781107286238 1107286239
Islam--Middle East.
Midwifery--Middle East.
Rites and ceremonies--Middle East.
Middle Ages.
Parturition--Ethnology.--Middle East
Islam.
Medicine, Medieval.
Islam
Midwifery--history
Ceremonial Behavior
History, Medieval
Parturition--ethnology
Moyen Âge.
Islam.
Médecine médiévale.
Islam.
MEDICAL--Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Rites and ceremonies.
Middle Ages.
Islam.
Midwifery.
Geburtshilfe
Hebamme
Islam
Sozialstatus
Middle East.
Middle East
Moyen-Orient.
Middle East.
Mittlerer Osten
Moyen-Orient.
Electronic books.
RG513
618.2009394
WQ 11 JA2