Plague, quarantines, and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / Birsen Bulmuş.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012], ©2012.

vii, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index.

1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought -- 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought -- 4. Magic and plague in the Ottoman Empire -- 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman quarantine reform -- 6. Plague and quarantines in the Colonial Era -- 7. Plague, sanitary administration, and the end of Empire -- 8. Towards a new understanding of plague and quarantines in the Ottoman Empire.