Islam and healing loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900

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 th...

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Main Author: Alavi, Seema (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2008
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