Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / / by Birsen Bulmus.
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 m...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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