Nükhet Varlık is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and specializes in the early modern history of medicine and health in the Mediterranean world.

• I. Rethinking Historiography and SourcesA Historiography of Epidemics in the Islamic Mediterranean by Miri Shefer-MossensohnScholars, Sufis, and Disease: Can Muslim Religious Works Offer Us Novel Insights on Plagues and Epidemics among the Medieval and Early Modern Ottomans? by John J. Curry"Oriental Plague" or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Nükhet VarlıkII. Diseases in ContextA Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe by Sam WhiteVeterinary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Alan MikhailSmallpox in the Harem: Communicable Diseases and the Ottoman Fear of Dynastic Extinction during the Early Sultanate of Ahmed I(r. 1603-17) byGünhan BörekçiEpilepsy as a "Contagious Disease" in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman World by Özgen FelekIII. Responses to Epidemic DiseasesReligion and Ottoman Society’s Responses to Epidemics in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Yaron AyalonPlague in Eighteenth-Century Cairo: In Search of Burial and Memorial Sites by Edna BonhommeNowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide?: Society, State, and Epidemic Diseases in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans by Andrew RobartsCholera, Pilgrimage, and International Politics of Sanitation: The Quarantine Station on the Island of Kamaran by Gülden Sarıyıldız and Oya Dağlar MacarBibliography Index