This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early
modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of
classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the
midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position
from which she could mediate between male authority in patriarchal
society and female reproductive power within the family. This study
also takes a broader historical view of midwifery in the Middle
East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and
popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into
the Ottoman period and addressing the confrontation between
traditional midwifery and Western obstetrics in the first half of
the nineteenth century.
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