Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp ix-xx

PART ONE - RETHINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES

pp 1-2

A Historiography of Epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean

pp 3-26

Scholars, Sufis, and Disease: Can Muslim Religious Works Offer Us Novel Insights on Plagues and Epidemics among the Medieval and Early Modern Ottomans?

pp 27-56

“Oriental Plague” or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the Early Modern Mediterranean

pp 57-88

PART TWO - DISEASES IN CONTEXT

pp 89-90

A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe

pp 91-116

Veterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

pp 117-134

Smallpox in the Harem: Communicable Diseases and the Ottoman Fear of Dynastic Extinction during the Early Sultanate of Ahmed I (r. 1603–17)

pp 135-152

Epilepsy as a “Contagious” Disease in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World

pp 153-176

PART THREE - RESPONSES TO EPIDEMIC DISEASES

pp 177-178

Religion and Ottoman Society’s Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

pp 179-198

Plague in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites

pp 199-220

Nowhere to Run To, Nowhere to Hide? Society, State, and Epidemic Diseases in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans

pp 221-242

Cholera, Pilgrimage, and International Politics of Sanitation: The Quarantine Station on the Island of Kamaran

pp 243-274

Bibliography

pp 275-308

Index

pp 309-315