Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from
Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the …

This paper surveys a group of natural hazards such as droughts, earthquakes, epidemics,
locusts, transient weather events, and volcanos, conceiving of all of them as belonging to a …

Like other port cities of the early modern Mediterranean, Ottoman Salonica was repeatedly
attacked by outbreaks of plague. When plague arrived, the Jewish residents of the town …

OvEr ThE laST decade or two, the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic stud ies has witnessed
the convergence of new perspectives on the history of epidemic diseases. A proliferation of …

With the industrial revolution and the use of steam power in marine transportation, a
significant increase in the number of expeditions from Europe to Turkey, especially to …

This article considers the transfer of medical knowledge from Europe to the Ottoman empire
and argues that what was significant in such transfer was medical practice rather than …

The world is currently suffering from another episode of respiratory disease pandemic as
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) spares no continent. The disease which is caused …

How did news from the East—carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and
correspondence—shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of …

This dissertation examines women, Islamic reform, and transregional mobility as they
intersected to influence early Afghan state formation. Focusing on the reigns of three …

This article investigates the letter-writing manual of the physician Muhammad Yusufi Haravi,
composed in the 1530s at the court of the Mughal emperor, Humayun. It argues that by …