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 the social and medical history of Indian Islam.
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Alavi, S. (2008). Islam and healing: Loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, 1600-1900. Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900 (pp. 1–384). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583771
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