Islam and Healing Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900

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Copyright: 10/15/2008

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This book traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as they 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. This is a pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam.

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Indo-Muslim Medicine: Unani in Pre-modern India	p. 18
Unani and the Dar al-Islam: Eighth-Fifteenth Centuries	p. 18
Unani in India	p. 28
New Medical Learning in Arabic: Unani in Eighteenth-century India	p. 43
Encounter with the West: The English East India Company	p. 54
Introduction	p. 54
The Calcutta Madrasa	p. 56
The Native Medical Institution and the Medical Community of Urdu Literature	p. 69
The Practice of Medicine: Public Welfare	p. 100
Introduction	p. 100
Health and Public Welfare	p. 101
The Arrival of Print: Medical Patronage, Textuality, and 'Authoriality'	p. 129
Dispensaries and Shifakhaanas in Early-Nineteenth-Century India	p. 154
Introduction	p. 154
Administration of Dispensaries	p. 155
The Dispensary as a Site for Clinical Trial of Materia Medica	p. 171
Contesting Western Medicine in the Dispensary: The Native Doctor and Unani Learning	p. 185
Contesting Colonial Medicine Outside the Dispensary: Unani in the Family and Private Libraries	p. 196
Urdu Medical Texts in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 205
Introduction	p. 205
Persian Medical Literature Translated into Urdu: The Zakhirah-i-Khwarzmshahi (Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarzm)	p. 207
Reaching Out to the Prophet: Homegrown Urdu Texts-The Mazhar-ul-Ulum and the Tibb-i-Nabawi	p. 216
The Unani Defence: Competing with British Medical Literature	p. 236
Argumentative Hakims: Debates in the Oudh Akhbar	p. 242
Introduction	p. 242
The Critique of the Dispensary	p. 245
The Urdu Press and the Making of Unani 'Modernity'	p. 263
From Culture and History to a 'Nation' (Mulk) for Unani	p. 276
Newspaper Advertisements: The National-Colonial Dialectic	p. 278
From Jhawain-tola to Takmil-ut-Tibb, Lucknow	p. 291
Introduction	p. 291
The Azizi Family of Lucknow Hakims: A Profile	p. 293
Hakim Abd al Aziz and the Challenge of Colonial Medicine: The Takmil-ut-Tibb College at Lucknow	p. 295
Creating a National Profile for Unani	p. 306
The Hakim as a Professional: Balancing the National Local with the Subcontinental Professional	p. 311
National vs Communitarian: Unani Gets a Muslim Hue	p. 321
Conclusion	p. 334
Glossary	p. 340
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 369
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