Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / / by Birsen Bulmus.

• Author: Bulmus, Birsen.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923Were you aware that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? Did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as a tool to resist British and French political and commercial penetration? Or that later Ottoman sanitation efforts to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? This b

Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map of Ottoman Empire; Chapter1 Preliminary Remarks; Chapter2 Conceptualising Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought; Chapter3 Plague and Ottoman Medical Thought; Chapter4 Magic and Plague in the Ottoman Empire; Chapter5 Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman Quarantine Reform; Chapter6 Plague and Quarantines in the Colonial Era; Chapter7 Plague, Sanitary Administration and the End of Empire; Chapter8 Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography; Index