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Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Cet ouvrage étudie, pour la première fois, le mouvement de traduction en persan des sources ayurvédiques qui a eu lieu à partir du XIVe siècle. En parallèle, il analyse les formes d’apprentissage de la culture médicale persane par les savants hindous. This book looks for the first time at the movement of translation of Ayurvedic sources into Persian that took place from the 14th century onwards. In parallel, it analyzes the forms of learning of Persian medical culture by Hindu scholars.

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 459

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World scrutinizes and analyzes Islam in context. It posits Muslims not as independent and autonomous, but as relational and interactive agents of change and continuity who interplay with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society as well as with resources from other traditions. Representing multiple disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume discuss a broad range of issues, such as secularization, colonialism, globalization, radicalism, human rights, migration, hermeneutics, mysticism, religious normativity and pluralism, while paying special attention to three geographical settings of South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America.

Arabic Medicine in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1005

Arabic Medicine in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-22
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopaedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and Chinese medical establishments. We translate the surviving material and context it in the history and ethnobiology of the medicine described.

Sculpting the Self
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Sculpting the Self

Sculpting the Self addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought. Alongside detailed analyses of three major Islamic thinkers (Mullā Ṣadrā, Shāh Walī Allāh, and Muhammad Iqbal), this study also situates their writings on selfhood within the wider constellation of related discussions in late modern and contemporary thought, engaging the seminal theoretical insights on the self by William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. This allows the book to develop its inquiry within a spectrum theory of selfhood, incorporating bio-physiological,...

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume looks at hospitals in the post-medieval Indo-Iranian world from various perspectives. During the Safavid-Mughal periods hospitals were still tied to Avicennian medicine. However, in Qajar Iran and British India hospitals became important instruments for the spread of modern Western medicine. The papers in this volume present a significant panorama on the history of medicine and medical institutions in Iran and India during the early modern and the modern periods. The portrait that emerges is not homogeneous, but instead shows ambivalent and contrasting images. Hospitals can be seen as powerful symbols of the Muslim scientific civilization and then of modern medicine, nevertheless...

Il Signor Dottore, a comic opera [altered from Carlo Goldoni]: as perform'd at the King's Theatre, etc. Ital. & Eng
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 66
Ejim
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 133

Ejim

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-31
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  • Publisher: Barkhuis

Volume 3 of eJIM, the eJournal of Indian Medicine. eJIM is a multidisciplinary periodical that publishes studies on South Asian medical systems by qualified scholars in philology, medicine, pharmacology, botany, anthropology and sociology.

The Occult Nineteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

The Occult Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.

Muslim Bodies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Muslim Bodies

Der Sammelband ist aus einem Panel beim Deutschen Orientalistentag in Marburg 2010 hervorgegangen und beleuchtet aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Körpererfahrungen, -kulturen, -diskurse und -techniken in islamisch geprägten Kulturen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Leitgedanke ist dabei die Frage danach, wie Individuen ihr Wissen über Körper/Sexualität im sozialen Feld konstruieren und welche Deutungssysteme (z. B. Islam, graeco-islamische Medizin) dabei wirksam werden. The present volume, product of a conference panel at the German Orientalists' Conference in Marburg 2010, aims at throwing light on the experiences, discourses and body techniques prevailing in Muslim bodily culture. It combines historical with contemporary case studies and explores the individual and collective patterns of knowledge construction related to body and sexuality, in a social field where different and sometimes conflicting knowledge systems (e.g. Islam, Graeco-Islamic Medicine) can be found at work.

Kalyana Mitra: Volume 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 665

Kalyana Mitra: Volume 3

Volume III, Modern Indian History: The volume contains 59 articles covering a wide range of topics including Historiography , Christian Missionaries, Women Education in Pre-Independence period, Social Forestry, Mir Osman Alikhan, Ramji Gond, Quit India movement, Madras Presidency, social reformers, Rural transformation, Peasant struggle, Freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi’s tours in Telugu, speaking areas, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s contributions, status of women, in Pre-Independence period, Regulating Act of 1773, Dalit movement in South India, Muslim reformers of India and Princely States: Historiographical Trends etc.,This Volume serves as a valuable source book for students, research scholars...