Thursday, July 5, 2018

সীমা আলাভি'র ইসলাম এন্ড হিলিং, লস এন্ড রিকভারি অব ইন্দো-মুসলিম মেডিক্যাল ট্রাডিশন, ১৬০০-১৯০০

অসাধারণ একটা বই। দৃষ্টিনন্দন প্রচ্ছদ এবং তার সূচীপত্রটি এবং মুখবন্ধ হিসেবে তার কৃতজ্ঞতা প্রকাশের প্রথম স্তবকটি তুলে দেওয়া গেল তুলে দেওয়া গেল, বইটায় লিখিত বিষয় সম্বন্ধে একটা সাধারণ ধারণা করার জন্যে।
My maternal grandmother Begum Ejaz Jahan (1915–2000) introduced me to the world of Tibb-i-Unani. She was the granddaughter of Hakim Abd al Aziz, the founder of the Azizi family of Lucknow hakims. She made me realize that Unani was not just a system of medicine but a form of healing—a way of life. The stories of intimate friendships that her family shared with the British civil surgeons of Lucknow encouraged me to think afresh about our colonial experience and its impact on our everyday lives. My grandmother’s maternal home, the Takmil-ut-Tibb College in Lucknow, epitomized for me the entanglement of the local medical culture with the global contours of medical science. At the same time her pride in her family’s exclusive status as the scholarly hakims of the city, different from neem hakims (spurious hakims), urged me to also explore the story of Tibb-i-Unani from within a very stratified tradition. This book is the result of my endeavours to understand the social history of North India via a documentation and analysis of the history and transformation of the Unani healing tradition. It studies Unani texts and its practitioners from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries so as to unravel the complex social history of the period.
এটা নিয়ে একটু সময় পেলে দীর্ঘ আলোচনা করা যাবে

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