Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

Did you know that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? And did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as...

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Main Author: Bulmuş, Birsen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Preliminary remarks
  • 2. Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought
  • 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought
  • 4. Magic and plague in the Ottoman Empire
  • 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman quarantine reform
  • 6. Plague and quarantines in the Colonial Era
  • 7. Plague, sanitary administration, and the end of Empire
  • 8. Towards a new understanding of plague and quarantines in the Ottoman Empire.