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Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam.
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'...a major contribution to our understanding of colonialism, and indigenous reactions.' Metascience
' The book is very informative [and] what imparts emotion to Alevi's scholarship is her obvious commitment to the fate of this descendant of ancient medicine.' The international Journal of Asian Studies
About the author
SEEMA ALAVI is Professor at the Department of History and Culture at Jamia Milia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi. She has twice been a Fulbright Fellow as well as a Smuts Fellow at Cambridge University, from where her PhD was revised and published as The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995). She has co-authored (with Muzaffar Alam) A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The Ijaz-I-Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773–1779) of A.H. Polier (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001). She has edited The Eighteenth Century in India, Oxford Debates Series (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002). She has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islam and Healing
Book Subtitle: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900
Authors: Seema Alavi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583771
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55438-2Published: 02 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36391-9Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58377-1Published: 02 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 384
Topics: Asian History, History of Science, Social History, Cultural History, History of Religion, Modern History