Islam and healing :

Alavi, Seema.

Islam and healing : loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900 Seema Alavi. - Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2008. - xiii, 384 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and index.

Indo-Muslim medicine : unani in pre-modern India -- Encounter with the West : the English East India Company -- The practice of medicine : public welfare -- Dispensaries and shifakhaanas in early-nineteenth century India -- Urdu medical texts in the late nineteenth century -- Argumentative hakims : debates in the Oudh Akhbar -- From Jhawain-tola to Takmil-ut-Tibb, Lucknow.

8178241951 (hardback : alk. paper) 0230554385 (hardback : alk. paper)

2008014350


Medicine, Arab--History.--India
Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.--India
Medicine--History.--India
Medicine, Unani--history--India.
History, Modern 1601---India.
Islam--history--India.
Religion and Medicine--India.

R605 / .A583 2008

610.938 Al12I

WZ 80.5.A8 / A472i 2008



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