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MUSLIM WOMEN AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL PRACTICES IN MALABAR

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Kerala has a rich heritage of medical treatment. Traditional medical treatment system remains important part of health care system in Kerala. Folk healers of Kerala, traditional healing practices of Vedas, Buddhism, Jainism and the medical tradition followed by the Arabs from centuries through the coastal belts of Malabar have all contributed to the evolution of traditional medical system in Kerala. The so called Adivasi medicine of the tribal community is another exclusive branch of traditional medicine in Kerala. Between the 13th and the 17th centuries, with generous royal and individual patronage, a fertile intellectual milieu developed around temples in Kerala, especially in the Nila valley region in Malabar, where scholarship and scientific research on medicine, mathematics and astronomy made significant progress. The vaidyam traditions were well established in the region when the Sanskritic textual tradition of āyurveda arrived in the sixth and seventh century. Subsequently the term ‘vaidyam’ came to denote both the local traditions as well as Sanskritic āyurveda. However, unlike elsewhere in India, a separate caste of vaidyas [āyurvedic physicians] did not emerge and the various strands of vaidyam became the domain of specifi c castes and occupational groups. Mappila community developed variety of knowledge in this field. They produced various books in Arabi Malayalam and also translated many books from various languages. The medicinal practice of the people of Kerala at the advent of nineteenth century was pragmatic. It was a mixture of traditional scientific knowledge and ritualistic practices. About Muslims, clerics played a vital role in health issues. Even though, the Arabic and Arabi-Malayalam texts written by regional scholars contained bunch of knowledge on medical treatment and healing practices. The knowledge transmission through inheritance as well as Sufi Silsilas (Sufi Chains) was a great tradition among Kerala Muslims.

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Colonial Medicine, Malabar Muslims, Female Health, Muslim women and Medicine

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"MUSLIM WOMEN AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL PRACTICES IN MALABAR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.1408-1411, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802282.pdf

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"MUSLIM WOMEN AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL PRACTICES IN MALABAR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp1408-1411, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802282.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR1802282
Registration ID: 306786
Published In: Volume 5 | Issue 2 | Year February-2018
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Page No: 1408-1411
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Area: Engineering
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
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