{"product_id":"muslim-midwives-9781107054219","title":"Muslim Midwives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Avner Giladi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46497093091479,"sku":"9781107054219","price":12568.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781107054219.webp?v=1769188879","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/muslim-midwives-9781107054219","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}