PART ONE RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. INTRODUCTION ix
5. PART ONE. RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES
6. PART ONE RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES 3
7. SCHOLARS, SUFIS, AND DISEASE: CAN MUSLIM RELIGIOUS WORKS OFFER US NOVEL INSIGHTS ON PLAGUES AND EPIDEMICS AMONG THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN OTTOMANS? 27
8. “ORIENTAL PLAGUE” OR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ORIENTALISM? REVISITING THE PLAGUE EPISTEME OF THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN 57
9. PART TWO. DISEASES IN CONTEXT
10. A MODEL DISASTER: FROM THE GREAT OTTOMAN PANZOOTIC TO THE CATTLE PLAGUES OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE 91
11. VETERINARY MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH‑CENTURY EGYPT 117
12. SMALLPOX IN THE HAREM: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND THE OTTOMAN FEAR OF DYNASTIC EXTINCTION DURING THE EARLY SULTANATE OF AHMED I (R. 1603–17) 135
13. EPILEPSY AS A “CONTAGIOUS” DISEASE IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN OTTOMAN WORLD 153
14. PART THREE. RESPONSES TO EPIDEMIC DISEASES
15. RELIGION AND OTTOMAN SOCIETY’S RESPONSES TO EPIDEMICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES 179
16. PLAGUE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CAIRO: IN SEARCH OF BURIAL AND MEMORIAL SITES 199
17. NOWHERE TO RUN TO, NOWHERE TO HIDE? SOCIETY, STATE, AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN BALKANS 221
18. CHOLERA, PILGRIMAGE, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF SANITATION: THE QUARANTINE STATION ON THE ISLAND OF KAMARAN 243
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 275
20. INDEX 309