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
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.
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