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)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:	History. Asian History. Cultural History. History of Religion. History of Science. Modern History. Social History. Civilization > History. History, Modern. Religion > History. Social history. Asia > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book