Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern middle east
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Tarih
2016
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Oxford Univ Press
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Avner Giladi’s panoramic study Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle
East opens by setting forth the views of midwifery presented by two authors of sharply contrasting sensibilities and approaches, the fifteenth-century historian and proto-sociologist Ibn Khaldūn and
the dyspeptic fourteenth-century religious polemicist Ibn al-Ḥājj. Ibn Khaldūn’s unusually extensive
and respectful treatment of midwifery forms a chapter within the section of his Muqaddima devoted
to professions and crafts. Acknowledging the professional expertise of midwives, he notes that they
are “better acquainted than a skillful [male] physician” not only with obstetrics but with the medical
treatment of infants (p. 3). Ibn al-Ḥājj, perhaps predictably, depicts midwives as ignorant folk practitioners whose customs are harmful to infants; he denounces in detail the non-sharʿī customs and ritual
practices that they perform in conjunction with childbirth. Giladi acknowledges that these two authors
may be describing midwives of different social strata or forms of training.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Muslim, Premodern Middle East, Muslim Midwives
Kaynak
American Historical Review
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Q1
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Cilt
121
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2
