Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. « ‘City of the Dead’ : The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 18, 2 (1998), pp. 51-58.
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1This article examines the question of Qajar modernity – a term that definitively seems to have replaced « modernization » – through the lens of measures that were taken to prevent the spread of the plague epidemic in the 1877s. Though European observes faulted the Iranians for doing little to halt the disease, the crisis did prompt the Qajar court to endorse the idea of border quarantine. It also laid the groundwork for a growing awareness of the link between hygiene and health, and, in assuming a foreign origin of epidemics, it even spawned a perceived connection between pestilence and patriotism and a need to safeguard Iran’s borders from medical attack.
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Rudi Matthee, « Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. « ‘City of the Dead’ : The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 18, 2 (1998), pp. 51-58. », Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 23 | 2002, document 148, mis en ligne le 08 février 2010, consulté le 17 juillet 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/35401 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.35401
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