03267nam 2200649Ia 450 991016665300332120200520144314.01-4744-2339-60-7486-4660-410.1515/9781474423397(CKB)2670000000203773(EBL)932458(OCoLC)795695184(SSID)ssj0000678695(PQKBManifestationID)12273189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678695(PQKBWorkID)10728975(PQKB)11631337(MiAaPQ)EBC932458(OCoLC)1111392746(MdBmJHUP)muse73520(OCoLC)987449406(ScCtBLL)fc3ff952-2711-4432-acab-709956108da7(DE-B1597)614694(DE-B1597)9781474423397(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34537(OCoLC)1159389932(EXLCZ)99267000000020377320111220d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /by Birsen BulmusEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20121 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.Print version (hardback): 0748646590 Print version (hardback): 9780748646593 Includes bibliographical references (p.[181]-190) and index.Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map of Ottoman Empire; Chapter1 Preliminary Remarks; Chapter2 Conceptualising Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought; Chapter3 Plague and Ottoman Medical Thought; Chapter4 Magic and Plague in the Ottoman Empire; Chapter5 Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman Quarantine Reform; Chapter6 Plague and Quarantines in the Colonial Era; Chapter7 Plague, Sanitary Administration and the End of Empire; Chapter8 Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography; IndexA sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923Were you aware 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? 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 efforts to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? This bPlagueTurkeyHistoriographyPlaguePolitical aspectsTurkeyHistoriographyTurkeyHistoryOttoman Empire, 1288-1918HistoriographyPlagueHistoriography.PlaguePolitical aspectsHistoriography.614.57320956Bulmus Birsen0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910166653003321Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire2292973UNINA