Table of Contents

I. Rethinking Historiography and Sources
A Historiography of Epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean by Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Scholars, Sufis, and Disease: Can Muslim Religious Works Offer Us Novel Insights on Plagues and Epidemics among the Medieval and Early Modern Ottomans? by John J. Curry
"Oriental Plague" or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Nükhet Varlık

II. Diseases in Context
A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe by Sam White
Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Alan Mikhail
Smallpox in the Harem: Communicable Diseases and the Ottoman Fear of Dynastic Extinction during the Early Sultanate of Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) by Günhan Börekçi
Epilepsy as a "Contagious Disease" in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World by Özgen Felek

III. Responses to Epidemic Diseases
Religion and Ottoman Society’s Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Yaron Ayalon
Plague in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites by Edna Bonhomme
Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide?: Society, State, and Epidemic Diseases in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans by Andrew Robarts
Cholera, Pilgrimage, and International Politics of Sanitation: The Quarantine Station on the Island of Kamaran by Gülden Sarıyıldız and Oya Dağlar Macar

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and specializes in the early modern history of medicine and health in the Mediterranean world.