TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bulmuş,Birsen
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / 
T2  - Knowledge Unlatched
SN  - 9781474423397
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Preventive Medicine
KW  - Forensic Medicine
KW  - bisach
KW  - Biography and True Stories
KW  - bicssc
KW  - politics
KW  - aat
KW  - Politique
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - Infectious Diseases
KW  - Health & Biological Sciences
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Politics
KW  - Plague
KW  - history
KW  - Quarantine
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Empire ottoman
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - History
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought -- 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought -- 4. Magic and plague in the Ottoman Empire -- 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman quarantine reform -- 6. Plague and quarantines in the Colonial Era -- 7. Plague, sanitary administration, and the end of Empire -- 8. Towards a new understanding of plague and quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Open Access
N2  - Did you know 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? And 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 effort to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? Birsen Bulmus explores these facts in an engaging study of Ottoman plague treatise writers throughout their almost 600-year struggle with this epidemic disease. Along the way, she addresses the political, economic and social consequences of the methods they used to combat it. Key Features Studies the premodern ways in which plague was viewed by Ottoman Islamic thinkers Traces the eventual Ottoman acceptance of quarantines and other modern medical reforms Analyses international debates over plagues and quarantines as a struggle about colonialism and national sovereignty
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/65985/
ER  -