{"product_id":"muslim-midwives-avner-giladi-9781107646810","title":"Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Avner Giladi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107646812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107646810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Avner Giladi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478536315135,"sku":"9781107646810","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65d1125a-8a88-431b-a591-ffec82156be2.jpg?v=1715935314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/muslim-midwives-avner-giladi-9781107646810","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}