Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern middle east
| dc.contributor.author | Maksudyan, Nazan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-15T12:37:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-05-15T12:37:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.department | İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/ahr/121.2.682 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 683 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0002-8762 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1937-5239 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 682 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.682 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/494 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 121 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000375439500168 | |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | Q1 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.institutionauthor | Maksudyan, Nazan | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford Univ Press | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | American Historical Review | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Diğer | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | en_US |
| dc.subject | Muslim | en_US |
| dc.subject | Premodern Middle East | en_US |
| dc.subject | Muslim Midwives | en_US |
| dc.title | Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern middle east | |
| dc.type | Review Article |
