Download or read book Islam and Healing written by S. Alavi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam.