Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900 by Seema Alavi

Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900

Seema Alavi

256 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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This book traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as they 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 medica...

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