Islamic Studies and Public Health. Kamran Karimullah has been awarded £4,687 to fund a project entitled “Islam and Public Health in the Early Modern Middle East, 1798-1882”. It will lay the foundations for a digital corpus of early modern medical Arabic to facilitate research on the link between Islam and public health in Egypt in the nineteenth century. This corpus, comprising some 20 titles exceeding 2.5 million words, will be assembled from a collection of medical texts translated from European languages and published in Arabic in Bulaq, Egypt between 1820 and 1880.
